A RECONSTRUCTIONIST CONFUCIAN ACCOUNT OF ENVIRONMENTALISM: TOWARD A HUMAN SAGELY DOMINION OVER NATURE.

Presents the Confucian view regarding environmental ethics, especially one that affords appropriate dominion of humans over nature. Assertions that Confucian view of the environment is often taken to be anthrpocosmic rather than anthropocentric; Identification of three different possible senses of ethical anthropocentrism in order to clearly identify the Confucian view; Suggestion that principles are best understood as Confucian moral requirements that reflect the virtue of supernatural personal power rather than the causal necessity of Daoist natural law.