两难选择:早期耶稣会对科学的态度

Choice between Science and Anti-science: The Early Jesuits' Attitudes to Science

通过考察早期耶稣会反科学却又不得不从事科学研究的两难处境,揭示了它在科学上的选择原则,即从"愈显主荣"的宗旨出发,凡是不触动神学根基、能够光荣天主的科学,就接受并给予支持;相反,就坚决反对。秉持这一原则的耶稣会既对近代科学发展做出了突出贡献,又使科学研究受到神学的束缚。

In this paper, the author studies the dilemma between opposing science and being engaged in scientific research in the history of the early Jesuits. The study reveals the attitude of the early Jesuits to science. For more demonstrating God's glory, the science could be accepted and supported by the Jesuits unless it shaked the foundation of theology and glorified the God. On the contrary, it would be opposed. Thus, the Jesuits not only made many contributions to the modern science, but also restricted the scientific research because of the theology.