亚里士多德自然哲学中的人文向度——兼论亚里士多德自然哲学是否阻碍近代自然科学的发展

The Humanism Factors in Aristotle's Natural Philosophy

文章从亚里士多德自然哲学中对知识的定位、运动观、时空观、宇宙论等几个方面,通过与近代自然科学世界观的对比,说明亚里士多德自然哲学关注的是较经验科学更为基础的问题并蕴涵着丰富的人文因素,这种思考自然的方式对于现代人意义重大。只有在他的自然哲学被"降格"到经验科学层面时,才会阻碍近代自然科学的发展。

This article compares Aristotle's natural philosophy with modern natural science about movement,space-time,universe and cosmology.Aristotle's research concerns the primal questions that are different from those of modern science.There are a lot of humanism factors in his natural philosophy.Aristotle's natural philosophy has been depreciated to experiential science.But it's not true that his thinking holds back the development of modern natural science.