摘要
科学研究在晚清社会属于非主流工作,但科学士绅依然坚守科学求真,他们的研究成果受到国内外同行的认可。由于受到中国传统文化“经世致用”思想的影响,国家需求和个人发展均出现喻俗的现象,“求真”的科学精神和“喻俗”的社会需求在现实生活中产生了价值冲突,部分科学士绅由“科学”转向“科举”。他们的分流是现代科学在中国的早期体制化过程中面临的不可避免的现象。对这一问题的探讨,是科学技术哲学必须严肃面对的主要论题之一。
Scientific research was a non-mainstream job in the late Qing Dynasty, yet the scientific gentry still sticked to seeking the truth of science, and their research results were appreciated by their peers at home and abroad. However, due to the influence of “pragmatism” of Chinese traditional culture, there was a phenomenon of “common customs” between national demand and individual future. It made a value conflict between the scientific spirit of “seeking truth” and the social needs of “common custom” in the late Qing Dynasty.Some of the scientific gentry abandoned scientific research and turned to “imperial examination”.Their diversion was an inevitable phenomenon in scientific institutionalization in early China. The discussion of this problem is one of the main topics that STS must face seriously.
作者
徐多毅
XU Duo-yi(School of Foreign Language,Changzhou University,Changzhou 213164,China)
出处
《自然辩证法研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2022年第4期87-93,共7页
Studies in Dialectics of Nature
基金
江苏高校哲学社会科学研究重大项目“江南制造局翻译馆译者群体研究”(2021SJZDA094)
安徽高校人文社会科学研究重点项目“江南制造局翻译馆译者群体研究——以本土译者的考辨与西方译者的‘中学西传’为考察中心”(SK2020A0099)。
关键词
科学士绅
经世致用
求真
喻俗
scientific gentry
pragmatism
seek truth
common custom
