Enlightenment of John Keats’s Ecological Viewpoints to Modern Society

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10.2991/mmetss-19.2019.64How to use a DOI?

Keywords

John Keats; ecological viewpoints; enlightenment; modern society; ecological civilization

Abstract

With the deterioration of ecological crisis in the process of human civilization, ecological problems have been paid close attention to all over the world. All the results show that ecological construction is urgent. In his short life, Keats wrote many poems containing ecological thoughts, as well as letters expressing his views on human and nature. Keats's ecological viewpoints reflected in his poems and letters are summarized into three points: human is part of nature; returning to nature; coexistence of human and nature. Inspired from these three points, three enlightenments to modern society are drawn as follows: firstly, establishing concept of green ecological civilization, abandoning action of destroying nature blindly in pursuit of interests; secondly, upholding ecological future view and constructing ecological civilization with a long-term perspective so as to leave a good natural environment for descendants; thirdly, cherishing an ecological global view and protecting ecological environment from the standpoint of all mankind around the world to build a beautiful earth for humans. Based on Marxist ecological views, President Xi Jinping of China has put forward a new concept of development for China, which includes "green" development to solve environmental problems. Keats's ecological viewpoints has certain reference value to the construction of ecological civilization for China today as well.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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