论中国传统科技的人文精神

与西方科技所彰显出的实证主义和理性主义的思想特征不同,中国传统科技受其特定的哲学文化结构的制约,在其久远的历史进程中形成了重整体轻个体的有机自然主义、重直觉轻实证分析的非理性主义和重实用轻理论的工具主义等人文精神特征。中国传统科技所具有的这一充满人文价值关怀的人文精神对于克服和遏制当代科学技术发展过程中出现的负面效应,推动当代科技的全面健康发展,无疑具有积极意义。

On Humanistic Spirit in Chinese Traditional Science and Technology

Through the investigation into the humanistic spirit which is unique in Chinese traditional science and technology,we find that,differing from the thought characteristics of positivism and rationalism that western science and technology indicates,Chinese traditional science and technology,restrained by the special philosophical cultural structure in the long history of development,has built up the spiritual features of organic naturalism of laying stress on entirety rather than part,irrationalism of focusing on intuition but not positive analysis,and instrumentalism of emphasizing practical use rather than theory.The humanistic spirit,filled with care for human value,as showed in the traditional Chinese science and technology,is undoubtedly of positive significance to illuminating and restricting the negative effects in the process of contemporary science and technology and promoting the all-scale development of contemporary science and technology.