| Ostwald has made great contributions in many fields of science,he is the founder of physical chemistry,one of the main researcher in chromatics and also gains great achievements in culture,philosophy and Energetics.Taking the natural philosophy and natural science as the main line,Ostwald makes clear the relations between the two thoughts: natural philosophy and natural science do not exclude each other,the ultimate goal of them is to realize the rule of people on nature,natural philosophy is the most extensive branch of natural science,the education of natural science must intersperse natural philosophy.The scientific thought of Ostwald is of great help to clear up the vague of the concept of science,He point out that the essence of science is to guide the human knowledge about future events,to make prophecy.The science teach us how to predict the unknown knowledge according experience,so as to deduce the factors which have not been identified yet.In the process of scientific research,the reasonable use of the general theory of knowledge and the induction and deduction,basing on reasonable case help us examine those unknown things.The idea of Ostwald concerning the theory of biological science including three aspects:First,the biological science contains all biological relationship,their most common concept is life.Second,Physiology is for non psychological phenomenon of life,including physiology of human and organism;Third,psychology is the science of psychological phenomenon;sociology is the science of dealing with the characteristic of human race.Clearing these concepts up contributes to the progress of human society,and promotes the development of civilization a lot.The scientific thought of Ostwald have profound influence on the rational use of scientific research. |
