The Essential Analysis Of The "Split" Of Scientific Culture And Human Culture

In 1959 English scholar Charles Percy Snow delivered a speech of Two Cultures and Scientific Revolution in Cambridge University, which caused long debate. Snow's Two Cultures can be defined as the culture of literary intellectuals and the culture of scientists. He also pointed out that mutual disbelieve and lacking understanding between scientific community and human community caused split of these two cultures and made the western culture losing its common cultural outlook. Nevertheless, people misunderstood this problem pointed out by Snow in the long debate of Two Cultures. They mistook the split between the culture of literary intellectuals and the culture of scientists as split between scientific culture and human culture. This paper holds the opinion that scientific culture does not split from human culture. It's not only because that Snow put forward the essence of the Two Cultures, which is"split of scientists and literary Intellectuals", but also because that scientific culture and human culture are derived from the same root originally, which share the same nature and significance, and they embody and make use of each other. The essence of so-called split of Two Cultures is the split of two communities, and it analytically demonstrates the ideological causes and reality affects of the split of scientific community and human community.This paper can be divided into four chapters:Chapter 1 starts with the introduction and debate of Two Cultures problem, introducing the Two Cultures put forward by Snow and the famous Snow-Leavis Controversy caused by it, and the Debate between Science and Metaphysics in China and the Sokal incident and Science War in western countries. This chapter makes good historical bedding for the verification of the essence of split between scientific culture and human culture.Chapter 2 is the major part of this paper. On the basis of explaining of the connotation and differences between scientific culture and human culture, it points out that differences are not equal to split. Scientific culture and human culture are uniform in themselves. They not only are derived from the same root, but also embody and make use of each other. Here leads the conclusion that scientific culture never split from human culture. The essence of so-called split of Two Cultures is the split of these two communities. The debate of Two Cultures is virtually the debate of two communities.Chapter 3 analyses the cause of the split of scientific community and human community. It describes the ideological root and reality affects of the split.Chapter 4 points out the harmonious development approaches of scientific community and human community.