近代自然科学的兴起对西方自然观的影响——以启蒙运动中的法国为例

To About the Effect that Modern Natural Science upon the Natural Idea during French Enlightenment

从16到18世纪末,天文学、生命科学和力学是近代自然科学成就最大的三个领域。根据近代自然科学所取得的巨大成就,法国的启蒙思想家们确立了一种比较彻底的唯物主义自然观,认为世界是物质的,而物质是运动着的,从而把唯物主义哲学推向了一个新的发展阶段。

From 16th century to the end of 18th century, the achievement of astronomy, life science and mechanics is the greatest among modem natural science. On the basis of great achievement that modem natural science had acquired, French thinkers in the Enlightenment established a thorough materialism natural idea and thought that the essence of world is material, and material is moving, so advanced materialism philosophy to a new stage.