论巫术对早期科学的推动作用及其消亡

Analysis on the Witchcraft's Impetus to Science in Early Stage and Its Disappearance

因为巫术与科学具有解释世界、生存目的和思维过程上的一致性,所以早期的巫术对科学的发展起到过推动作用,主要表现在四个方面:从心理认知上强化了主体的自我价值,从想象创造上促进了主体的形象思维,从经验积累上完成了科学的知识储备以及从仪式操作上推动了科学的实践活动。但因为巫术与科学具有价值信仰和面向对象的本质对立性,所以推动作用终会变为阻碍作用,这种阻碍作用主要表现在:巫术的经验思维阻碍了科学的理性思维,巫术的神秘色彩阻碍了科学的求真务实以及巫术的保守封闭阻碍了科学的传播普及。

Because witchcraft and science have consistencies in explaining the world,the purpose of survival and thinking process,so witchcraft has played a catalytic role in the development of science and reflected in the four aspects： Witchcraft strengthens the self-value of the subject from the psychological cognition,promotes the subject of thinking in images from the imagination to create,completes scientific knowledge reserve from the accumulation of knowledge and promotes the scientific practice from the ceremony activities. However,because of two opposites in value faith and object-oriented,the role of witchcraft on the promotion has changed to obstruction and mainly reflected in the following three aspects： witchcraft＇s experience thinking hindered the scientific rational thinking,the mystery of witchcraft hindered the scientific pragmatic and the conservative closure of witchcraft hindered the spread of science.