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Facing contemporary crisis of existence in pollution of environment and ecological deterioration, we have to reflect human engineering again and question that how engineering paradigm ought to be selected, in order to let artificial world can organically be embedded natural ecological system. According to methodologies of phenomenology and morphology, general human modes of engineering evolution can be described in the positions of organism, holism and process theory as follows: being-in-itself engineering, being-for-itself engineering, being-in-itself and being-for-itself engineering. With the trend of developing Industry 4.0, it is necessary that Engineering 4.0 will be present, because industry is grouping on engineering projects. Therefore, we can describe above general human modes of engineering evolution as: Engineering 1.0, Engineering 2.0, Engineering 3.0 and Engineering 4.0. Moreover, the both of general human modes of engineering evolution are consistent. These engineering modes respectively have shaped agricultural civilization complying with nature and industrial civilization dominating nature, and will enable mankind enter ecological civilization seeking to harmony between man and nature. Chinese practice of engineering is shaped by the general modes of engineering evolution in the way of time-space compression from 1840 to nowadays, and it is facing challenge of new industrial revolution. Matching with the Self-Aware Industry 4.0, Engineering 4.0 or being-in-itself and being-for-itself engineering will insist the principle of ethical priority and transcend Engineering 3.0 or being-for-itself engineering only seeking to utility and benefits, so it is a new expression of contemporary Biocosmology and Neo-Aristotelism. Then, we should pay attention to interaction, inter-interpretation and inter-response between engineering modes and ethical modes, select two paths of engineering ethics studies from engineering to ethic and from ethic to engineering, and c