Analysis Of The Promotion Effect Of The Puritanism To Science

The religion initiates culture was once occupied the dominant position of thecultural idea. The factor which the cultural value contains is advantageous to thescientific progress. This article combs the science and Puritanism interaction’srelated theory which Merton has studied, to find out how further does therevelation congeal in the Puritanism culture values thoughts and feelings guidespeople to tend to or to be far away from the scientific enterprise. In order to clearoff between the Puritanism and the science interactive pattern, Merton deeplyresearched the thought and faith and motion which were related to theology theory.These thought and the faith and the motion expressed the intense thoughts andfeelings through ways on language and behavior and so on, and affected people’svalue orientation and the social action to a certain extent.Puritanism ethics and the modern science’s thought way had obtainedconsistently in utilitarianism and rationalism aspects and so on. The culture’suniformity enabled the science activity to have the lofty social prestige. ThePuritanism principle has provided cultural idea support and defense for the sciencedevelopment. The Puritanism principle publicizes which is the same with thescience intrinsic makings has become the scientific progress power. Religion inreform process “unconsciousness” enables the Puritanism principle guidancecommon custom social concept the manner to have the transformation to thescience, and promoted the science development.Merton’s research which is about the Puritanism and the science, in thereligion and the science are “oppose completely” time tells the people, saw merelythe two’s opposition relations are one-sided. Reviews Merton’s research results andfrom the sociology of science angle of view regarding religion and the sciencerelations, is good for the people to have a more comprehensive and an objectiveunderstanding on the two’s relations, the two have the unity in the specific time, even is having the relations which in certain aspects promotes mutually. Have acorrect understanding to the this relations and promote religious and the scienceaccord development, in the build socialism harmonious culture, the constructionsocialism harmonious society’s new time has more special significance.The Puritanism principle simultaneously has the negative function and thepositive function to science development, also has the obvious function and thelatent function to science development. Therefore, this article thought that thepeople should understand correctly the two’s relations, and absorb the beneficialhumane spirit and the beneficial values from the religion, and use the “friendly”idea which publicizes by the religion to guide the science healthy development.The science is asks “really”, the religion strives for “friendly”, should fuse theirreasonable ingredient, Guaranteed that the science avoid marches into the wrongroad in the development process. This will be helpful in processes the science andthe social other subsystem’s accord development. This has a more special practicalsignificance in the construction harmonious society time.