On The New Youth Intellectual Group's Viewpoint Of Science

The New Youth journal has played a very important role in spreading of modern scientific thoughts and ideas in China.The New Youth intellectual group,represented by Chen Duxiu,have kept the original aim of reconstructing the value of national culture,and have considered science as one of the valued principles of all social phenomena,which has surpassed the all Chinese cognition of science before the May 4th Movement.The scientific concept of The New Youth Intellectual group extends from the connotation to the scientific function,and the cognition of the scientific function varies with the change of political environment both at domestic and abroad.The early recognition of the scientific function focuses on the transformation of the backward national culture,such as attacking the dross of Chinese traditional culture,cultivating the "new youth" with the science,and at the world with the perspective view of science.Later,the emphasis on the cognitive of scientific functions extends from the cultural field to the political field,with the aim of creating a new socialist culture.By unscrambling the science meaning of the New Youth intellectual community and analyzing the function of influence factors,We can get some helpful inspirations and instructions for China's current cultural construction.It can give us enlightenment to arise cultural self-confidence in Chinese present cultural construction,to keep realistic and practical attitude towards science,thus to make full use of the scientific value in contemporary China.