以千年看百年——中国和西方的科学与社会

A Century's Review in the Context of the Past Millennium Science and Society in China and the West

为真正理解科学的意义及其未来前途 ,必须了解科学与社会的相互关系。虽然这种认识早已成为业内学者甚至社会的一种共识 ,但有关科学与社会研究迄今还没有一个明确的分析框架。本文尝试地提出一个基于文化进化观的分析框架 ,并在一千年来中国和西方的科学与社会的讨论基础上评论了 2 0世纪中国的情况。所得出的主要结论是 :没有现代民主制度就不可能有科学的繁荣 ,没有现代市场制度就不可能有技术的进步 。

s:In order understand the significance and future of science,we must make clear the inteaction between sicence and society.Although a consensus on this understanding has reached among scholars specializing in this field and even in public, so far an explicit analytic framework for related scientific research and social rsearch is unavailable. Based on the outlook of cultural evolutionism, this article tries to tentatively put forward an analytic framework, and purovided a century's review in the context of the past millennum science and society in China and West. It goes without saying that without a system of modern democracy, it is impossible to make science prosperous and without a system of modernized market, technological progressis out of the question. Similarly, without our deserved contribution to the worlds science and techonlogy, the Chinese naton is not able to get foot-hold of equality among other nations in todays world.