The Era Of Synthesis

The research of philosophy must be care for life and the latest development of contemporary science and technology. Philosophy is the essence of era's spirit. The transformation of philosophical subject and thinking-mode is not only an evolutionary process of internal and logical rules but also a reflective process of human existentence in social development. The main purpose of this essay brings to light not only the inner relationship between revolution of science and technology and the transformation of thinking-mode in contemporary science and technology. Thus, it will be concerned so that we can do away with the improper traditional thinking-mode of contemporary society. And new thinking-mode will be built which fits the demand of contemporary social practice and the development of science and technology. The essay is beginning from analyzing the relation between evolution of science and technology and thinking-mode. Then it concludes that the evolution of science and technology is the source of transformation of thinking-mode. Then, the transform of thinking-mode is suitable for science and technology. In the era of new science and technology, there is a gigantic transformation of subject, object and medium of thinking-mode by development of science and technology. So there is also an epoch complex principle, from reality to virtual, from substance to relation, from predetermine to generate, from accurate to indistinct. These transformations direct the trend which revolution of new science and technology bring transformation of thinking-mode. We need reflex that the thinking-mode from revolution of science and technology is a scientific thinking-mode, although evolution of science and technology is the source of transformation of thinking-mode. Science is a way to know object. There is an essential distinction to the way of human being. Human being is difference from object indeed. So we can't apply the thinking-mode from evolution of science and technology to take place of all thinking-modes, thinking-mode of science can't take place of thinking-mode of human being. And when we face the reality and that science and technology is full of every nook and cranny in the era of new science and technology. It is a problem of which thinking-mode is about how to consider science and technology. So we inquire into the new problem in the development of science and technology. All these problems have been coming not only by the evolution of new science and technology, but also by the thinking-mode of ourselves. And the transformation of thinking-mode is guided into the field of philosophy. As a result, we must change the thinking-mode of philosophy with the thinking-mode of science, furthermore, it is a necessary to make the thinking-mode changed from science to philosophy. And it results in the changing direction from the theory of knowledge into the theory of existence. In a word, we need new science and technology, but we need a new thinking-mode more. There are four sections in my thesis. The first three sections discuss the source of the evolution of new science and technology and the transformation of thinking-mode, and answer why the evolution of new science and technology can lead to the transformation of thinking-mode. The last section is about how to consider the transformation for the evolution of new science and technology. The first section mainly discusses the origin about the evolution of science and technology, and talks over how it can lead to the transformation of thinking-mode. At first, we must learn about the base of the thinking-modes'producing and forming. Thinking-modes have the same in structure and the difference in nature with the practice-mode. And practice is the base of the thinking-modes'producing and forming. The development of science and technology are the most outstanding in the field of practice. And as a result, evolution of science and technology is the most important inherent power that makes the thinking-modes changing. Moreover, from the visual angle ofhistory, they also have consistency. The evolution of science and technology in ancient times had led to thinking in images. And in modern times, the authority of science and rationality had replaced the religion because of the first revolution of science and technology. The second revolution of science and technology had led to the transformation of which thinking-mode was from metaphysics to dialectics. In a word, the two revolutions of science and technology in modern times had taken the thinking-mode of analysis to the dominant position. However, the theory of system has been the most outstanding phenomenon because of the third revolution of which science and technology has happened in 20 century, and the thinking-mode of system has become a dominant thinking-mode. From the three revolutions of science and technology, we can understand that the transformations of thinking-modes have the most relationship with the revolution of science and technology clearly, and we also can prove the center view in the thesis. The second section mainly reveals the relation between the new revolution of science and technology and the transformation of thinking-mode. What are the distinguishing features in the new transformation of thinking-mode? First, we will discuss the intensions of new science and technology, and we can find it has some important features, for example, the integration of science and technology, the coming of digitalization and intelligentization, the technology's sciencization and science's technologization, the integrating of the science and the humanities, and uniting of the function of substance and the function of culture. Therefore, comparing with the past, the influences, which have been brought to the thinking by the new revolution of science and technology, are more universal to the subject of thinking, more holistic to the thinking-way, more exhaustive to the object of thinking. In a word, all these are the most important features in the new transformation of thinking-mode, and will be in all domains. The third section discusses the trend of the transformation of thinking-mode in the conditions of new revolution of science and technology. With the coming of the new revolution of science and technology, the thinking-mode of pure analysis will not suit the changing of new era, and the...