对科学精神和人文精神的一些思考

Thinking About Scientific Spirit and Humanistic Spirit

某些现代西方批判理论家特别是法兰克福学派认为,在发达工业社会中,科学技术成为控制、支配、统治人的思维方式、生产生活方式的意识形态,造成社会的生存、发展及文化危机,把科技推到“原罪”地位。而对于中国而言,传统文化缺乏科学理性和精神,政治意识形态长期占据话语霸权,科学素质和精神亟待提高,因此不能简单照搬西方科技批判理论。而认为中国的人文精神极其丰厚及人文精神与科学精神相对立的观点也值得商榷。中国传统人文精神是建立在早就发达起来的农业文明的基础上的早熟而缺乏科学理性的人文精神,而科学精神是现代人文精神不可分割的一部分,现代的人文精神应是融合科学精神在内的人文精神。

Some modern western critical theorists exaggerate the negative effects of science and technology, and believe that science and technology has become a kind of ideology that helps command, control, even dominate people＇ s mode of thinking, way of life, and mode of production,thus causing the society living crisis, development crisis and culture crisis in industrial societies.Chinese can＇t adopt the western critical theory without any change. But we also should guard against the one-sided belief that only Chinese are rich in humanism and the humanism and science and technology spirits are opposite to each other.