可持续生存：当代经济伦理的至上性法则

当代人类的经济增长方式是以自然资源为支持、以工业文明为基础、以资本逻辑为机制的经济增长方式。这种经济增长方式是当代人类生存危机的直接根源。传统经济伦理学探讨的基本问题是在经济活动中所发生的人与人之间的伦理关系问题，它把人与自然之间的关系排除在伦理学之外，单纯探讨实现人类内部的经济行为，即生产、交换、分配和消费的公平正义法则。从当代人类生存危机的角度看，这一法则不利于捍卫人类可持续性生存和发展的目标。因此，当代经济伦理应该把生存法则确立为经济伦理的最高法则。
The contemporary economic growth is based on and driven by the following three factors：natural resources，industrialization and capital. Such mode of growth is the direct cause for today’s crisis ofhuman existence. The traditional economic ethics focused on the ethical relationship between human beings ineconomic activities，trying to explore the law of justice governing the production，exchange and consumptionwhile ignoring the ethical relationship between man and nature. Considering the crisis of human existence，this cannot meet the objectives of the sustainability and development of human existence. Therefore，thecontemporary economic ethics has to take the rule of sustainability as the supreme law governing the economicactivities