宋应星对中国传统技术哲学的继承和发展

Song Yingxing’s Inheritance and Development of Chinese Traditional Philosophy of Technology

在技术生成论的模式上,宋应星继承了传统技术哲学生成论的基本方面,但进行了新的诠释,最终构建了万物生成论的图式。在思维方式上,宋应星继承了源于《周易》的“类比推理”,把这种思维方式运用到对技术手段或技术工艺的分析之中,在很大程度上解释了中国古代没有西方式的“科学”思维或逻辑思维,但依然不断地作出发明创造的原因。在对技术从定性到定量的探索中,宋应星回答了在不离统一性的“道”的前提下,由定性如何走向定量这一重要问题。

In the model of the theory of technology generation,Song Yingxing inherited the basic aspects of the theory of traditional philosophy of technology,but made a new interpretation,and finally constructed the schema of the creation theory of all things.In the way of thinking,Song Yingxing inherited the “analogy” of Zhouyi and applied this method of thinking to the application of technical means or technical technology.To a great extent,it explained the reason why ancient China did not have western “scientific” or logical thinking,but still kept making inventions and creations.In the exploration of technology from the qualitative to the quantitative,Song Yingxing answered the important question of how to move from the qualitative to the quantitative under the premise of “Tao” of unity.