关于文献与社会

Documents and Society

人类创造文字是为了交流,创制文献是为了使人的意识能"垂之久远"地传播出去。这种交流与传播,是人类社会的需要,同样是客观的社会事实,传播的背后所潜藏的就是社会的人的意识交流。这首先是作者与读者的交流,其次是读者与读物所叙述社会事实的交流。因此,它所解释或描述社会现象时必须符合客观事实的特性。文化的核心目标和功能在于培养和塑造全面发展的人,文献作为文化的重要载体,也是同理的。

Human beings have invented writing systems for communication and compiled documents for the diffusion and inheritance of knowledge. This kind of communication and transmission is both a social fact and the demand of human society, in which lies the conscious communication. Firstly, this communication is between the author and the reader and, secondly, between the reader and the social facts recorded in the text. Thus, its explanation or description of the social phenomena should reveal the features of the facts. The final goal and functions of culture are the cultivation of men in all aspects while documents are an important carrier of culture with their great significance.