马克思对弗兰西斯·培根哲学的扬弃及其当代价值

On Marx’s Sublation of Francis Bacon’s Philosophy and Its Contemporary Value

17世纪英国资产阶级革命前夕,弗兰西斯·培根首创以科学实验为基础的唯物主义哲学,为推动英国资本主义的发展乃至人类历史的发展提供了先进的思想武器。在哲学史上马克思首次对培根哲学进行科学评价和系统扬弃,将培根的近代实验唯物主义哲学进一步推进到新的阶段——现代实践唯物主义阶段。当前,人类历史正步入数字化时代和科技大创新的时代,由培根提出,经马克思扬弃的新兴自然科学成果、唯物主义哲学成果应与人类生活和生产紧密结合的先进理念仍然没有过时,并将发挥更为积极的引领作用。

In the eve of the English bourgeois revolution of 17 th century, Francis Bacon first pioneered a materialist philosophy on scientific experiments. The new philosophy provided advanced ideological weapons to promote the development of English capitalism and human history. Marx gave the first scientific evaluation and systematical sublation of Bacon’s philosophy in history, and further advanced Bacon’s philosophy of modern experimental materialism to a new stage—the stage of modern practical materialism. At present, human history has entered the digital era and the era of scientific and technological innovation. The advanced idea that the achievements of the emerging natural science and materialist philosophy should be closely integrated with human life and production, which was proposed by Bacon and sublated by Marx, is still not old-fashioned, and will play a more active leading role in the future.