自然哲学的研究传统与当代定位

The Research Tradition and Contemporary Task of Natural Philosophy

自然哲学不仅是指关于自然的哲学,其根本意义还在于揭示自然的本原或通过自然来探寻本原,这一传统可追溯到古希腊自然哲学。伴随科学的新进展,当代自然哲学有了复兴之势,展现为科学化的哲学进路与形而上思辨进路:前者依据科学成果探寻新的自然本原、反思自然理论前提并对自然图景进行整合;后者以哲学思辨超越科学的局限,揭示自然的普遍意义。更为广阔的自然哲学以整体主义进路整合人类把握世界的不同方式,实现对所有生命的理解,促进人的全面发展。

Philosophy of nature is not only a philosophy seek the natural beginning or disclose the beginning of about the nature, but also the philosophy to existence through the nature, which can be traced back to the Ancient Greek philosophy. Trigged by the new developments of contemporary sci- ences, the contemporary philosophy of nature as some kind of revival of its tradition, closely related with science, is seeking to explore the new beginnings of the hiding nature, which discloses new natu- ral beginning, reflect the foundation of natural theory and integrates the scientific picture of nature through a scientifically philosophical approach while unfolding a general implication of nature beyond science by means of speculative metaphysics. From a point of holism, the broader philosophy of nature attempts to integrate the various approaches to copy with the whole world for the sake of holis- tic understanding of all forms of lives and the overall developments of human beings.