Recent years have seen an increased turning to the “wisdom of the East” when addressing issues on the environment. The risk of misappropriating its tenets in order to make them conform to the Western system is extremely high however. This paper will lay bare the early texts of Daoism so as to disprove claims that Nature is mystical, antithetical to technology, and subservient to human consciousness. It shall argue that Nature not only arises from a nonanthropocentric source in Dao but that this arising takes place across three levels of reality: Dao’s mystery, the cosmogony of the One-and-Many, and the fourfold comprised of Dao, Heaven, Earth, and man. The result is a vision of Nature no longer bound to a singular actuality but one whose presence is felt across an endless range of possibilities as the substantive realization of Dao.

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对道家自然观的重新思考

近年来，在解决环境问题时越来越多地转向“东方智慧”。但是，滥用其宗旨以使其符合西方制度的风险非常高。本文将揭露道教的早期文献，以驳斥有关自然是神秘的，与技术相对的，对人类意识服从的说法。应当论证，自然不仅来自道的非人类中心源，而且这种增长发生在三个现实层面：道的奥秘，一对多的宇宙论，以及由道，天堂，地球，和男人。结果是自然的视野不再局限于单一的现实，而是随着道的实质性实现，其存在的可能性被无穷的范围所束缚。