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The View of Environment Implicated in the Oriental Thoughts

The seriousness of current environment problems is demanding the drastic change in the view of environment. The purpose of this study was to find out the view of environment shown in oriental thoughts. The oriental thoughts were slightly different in the views of human, nature, and environment, but they had the important point in common. This was that human and nature were one, and human should follow nature. According to the oriental thoughts, human could not be separated from nature. Human were a part of nature, or nature itself. The ideal of human life was the recovery of natural states, and this could be obtained by lessening human artificial doings to nature, and throwing away their desires. The above oriental thoughts could not solve the environment problems completely. But the current views of environment should be changed in order to lessen the pollution of environment and prevent the ecological breakdown. This change could be obtained through education. Based on the above discussion, this study suggests that we should develope the practical new model of environmental movement and environmental education based on the oriental thoughts of human, nature, environment. The final suggestion is that we should study the traditional thoughts of India and Korea deeply in order to elucidate the oriental view of environment.