关于社会科学的哲学反思

The philosophical reflections on social science

社会科学是古老人文智慧的后裔,在近代的历史生成和发展中,受到自然科学成功的激发和鼓舞。18世纪后期,社会科学和人文科学在知识与组织上分离之后,社会科学作为介乎自然科学和人文科学之间的种种学科得以发展,显现出社会科学的科学性和人文性的两张面孔。社会科学的性质,决定了社会科学的双重目标:既要寻求普遍规律和因果知识,又要寻求人文理解,关键是把这看似矛盾的两个方面统一起来,在两级对立中保持必要的张力。

Social science is the descendent of ancient human wisdoms and its developments are encouraged by the successes of natural sciences. Social science have the two faces： scientific and human. The nature of social science determine the double goal：aiming to universal law and causal explanations on one hand; aiming to human understanding on the other hand.