Abstract: This article discus ses ontological natural view,epistemological natural view, a xiological natural view and practical natural view on the basis of the etymological explanation of nature and from philosophical and historical perspectives. The art icle also analyses the two orientation-turns of natural view in the history of Wes tern ideology and concludes that natural view in eco-ethics is the third orientation-turn, or the value orientation,and expounds on its content.

Key words: nature, natural view, eco-ethics