Research On Du Yaquan's Viewpoints Of Science And Tcchnology

Du Yaquan is an outstanding ideologist and scientist in China's modern history, as well as the forerunner of the ideological enlightenment and scientific enlightenment. In order to change the old China's poverty and weakness, and to convert the situation of the backward and invaded by the Imperialist Powers, he inherits the ideas of saving the Country through knowledge, and takes the spreading and popularizing of science and technology for his own missions, devoting all of his life to the scientific and technological undertakings patiently and tirelessly.Du Yaquan's viewpoints of science and technology is the demand of the times and the results of his aspiring to devote himself to motherland and pursue practices, which is the same as his efforts on the scientific and technological practices. The essay starting with the study on Du Yaquan's life and the times background, analyses of the basic conditions of birth of Du Yaquan's viewpoints of science and technology. And then, taking the time and the connotation of his viewpoints of science and technology as the developing vein, systematically combs the connotation and development of Du Yaquan's viewpoints of science and technology. Du Yaquan's viewpoints changed with the time, and had a logical evolution in its internal. In its early stage, it shows a scientism color. While in its middle stage, it can be concluded as a suspicious and cautious viewpoint of science and technology. And in its later, it can be regarded as a dialectical and multivariate viewpoint. As the carrier of his viewpoints of science and technology, the essay also carries out the systematically tracing and studying Du Yaquan's practices about science and technology. His practices on propagation and popularization of science and technology show in the following two aspects. At first, he created scientific magazines, and wrote books, articles, and translated scientific books.etc. Secondly, he devoted to the development of the modern education, and hoped improving the propagation and popularization of science and technology through the development of education. While in the last, it reached the same goal by different routes. And it also became the most glinting parts in the modern history on propagation and popularization of science and technology. In the last part of the essay, it gives objective and impartial comments on Du Yaquan's viewpoints of science and technology. As the coetaneous intellectuals standing in the forefront of times, Du Yaquan's viewpoints of science and technology have the historical progressive nature, while it also have deficiencies limited by the times and his cognitive abilities. The historical progressive nature is having promoted the propagating and popularization of science and technology in the modern China, enriched the treasure house of ideological history, left valuable spiritual wealth which can be referenced by the successors. What's more, as an important part it constructed and perfected Du Yaquan's whole ideological system. Its negative points can be concluded as follows: confusing of Chinese and Western civilization, presenting the character of copinism, and lacking of promoting the theoretical level. In addition, he made the mistakes in recognizing the standards of appraising good and evil on science and technology.etc.