On Environmental Virtue Ethics from the Perspective of Positive Psychology

Building the values and rights of objective nature has been always the major task since the emergence of Environmental Ethics, however, the human being, i. e. , the object of moral behaviors has been ignored. Confronting the status of Environmental Ethics with no human in the context, scholars started to study Environmental Ethics from the perspective of virtue. Positive psychology is a psychological thought of studying the positive strength and virtue of human, which significantly affects the researches of Environmental Ethics. Learning the latest research achievements from positive psychology, environmental virtue ethics stresses the bringing of positive factors in environmental protection into full play, especially the positive personality traits of moral agents, so as to encourage and influence the people's friendly behaviors towards nature.