胡适的科学文化观

Hushi's Attitude To Science Culture

胡适作为上个世纪初中国思想史和科学史上最有影响的代表人物之一,在他践行科学中形成了一套系统的科学文化观:文化必须建立在科学基础之上,并能促进人类的福利事业,中西文化要发展,必须科学化;科学的目的是致知和求真,而实证性、合理性、普遍性则是科学的特性;他提倡的科学方法主要是两个方面:一是实验主义,二是假设主义;胡适提倡的科学精神中,首推怀疑精神,也包括创新精神和求实精神。这些精神的倡导对于弘扬科学精神,扫除愚昧迷信,输入学理,再造文明都有积极的意义。

Hushi, as one of the most influential representative great men in the Chinese history of ideology and science in the early of last century, held the scientific and rational attitude in his whole life. He thought that science can lessen man＇s pain and improve man＇s happiness; He devoted his whole life to is to spread science too. As a matter of fact, the science in his eyes refers to scientific methods, which are kept proposing in his whole life. There are two aspects included, one is experi-mentalism , the other one is supposing-mentalism ;Hushi devoted his heart and soul to spreading Chinese science. These spirits have positive influence on spreading scientific methods, wiping ignorance and superstition out, instilling doctrine and reconstructing civilization.