Britain ' S Experience Scientific Thought In High Middle Ages

The germination of Britain,s experience scientific thought is first benefit from the spread of Arab culture which provides experience observation,practical philosophy and the scientific method for Western Europe. Classical philosophy infiltrated in the Christian civilization in medieval Western Europe, and therefore this made Christian theology of normalism showed the factors of experience scientific thought which put the attention to ration and individual .The factors of experience scientific thought in the classical philosophy and Arab science was developed further by the British scholars who made great contribution to the translation of Arab science and Greek classical works.The translation of natural philosophy and science made academic preprations for the germination of expirence scientific thought.The spirit of natural philosophy was promoted in Oxford University and the new idea of scientific thought was showed in Oxford students.Both the scholar's translation activities and the development of Oxford University provided fertile culture soil.for germination of Britain's experience scientific thought.Britain's experience scientific thought in high medieval age is based on human natural reason . In ontology, it admits the existing material world and appllies the reason to material world.In addion,it regards the material world which can be sensed by human as the main point in study . The attemptation to differentiate between faith and reason objectively leds to the independent of the reason. This provides the possibility for probing the material world and the development of epistemology method;In the problem of universals, experience scientific thought emphasizes particulars things as the core of the human knowledge in cognitive. In corresponding, the epistomology of experience and feeling from individual to general in cognitive route;The practice of scientific experiments is thought of an effective way of gaining truth. On the base of criticising Arab tradition and inheriting medieval European culture, the British scholars absorb some of the element of materialism and empirical thought rely on their own wisdom and efforts. This makes Britain formed the unique tradition of experience scientific thought and it takes the first step for modern science in Western Europe.