摘要：A partnership ethic is a new environmental ethic, proposed for the twenty-first century. It is based on the idea that humans and nature are partners. So everyone is strictly interlinked. In a partnership ethic humans and nature basic needs are considered. Continuities and differences between human and non-human nature are taken into account. It also recognizes that humans have the power to destroy life. It goes beyond the homocentric ethic to a new ethic which entails the good of both human and more-than-human communities. It entails a new consciousness and a new discourse about nature and asks humans to cultivate a new ability to hear nature’s voice. Antecedents of a partnership ethic come from environmentalists, philosophers and feminists. A partnership ethic is based on the concept of relation, offering a new possibility of narrative about the human place in nature. In the writings of Riane Eisler, Val Plumwood, and Alison Jaggar, cooperation, respect, friendship and care become new values for a new ethic. A partnership ethic implies a re-mything of the Edenic Recovery Narrative. The new story, instead of accepting the patriarchal sequence of creation, would emphasize simultaneous creation, cooperative male/female evolution and each earthly place would be a home, a community, to be shared with other living beings.
