The View Of Hushi's Science Culture

Hushi, as one of the most influential representative great men in the Chinese history of ideology and science in the early of last century, held the scientific and rational attitude in his whole life. He measured the traditional thought, culture, system, custom and people with the eyes of examining instead of following blindly and superstition. He devoted himself to popularizing the science and developing a set of systematic science and culture conception.As for Hushi, culture was a way of life that civilization leads to. It includes two factors material and spirit. Science can lessen man's pain and improve man's happiness. The first ideal goal in modern world's culture is to fully develop and make the most of science, make full use of the scientific results to improve people's life. Therefore, culture should base on science and it can contribute to man's welfare career. The Chinese and Western culture need development, which should be put the science to it. The character of recent century's culture is scientific culture and it's goal is to get known and achieve truth. Knowledge originates from question. Asking with questions leads to the increasing of knowledge while the specific property of science is positivism , rationality and universality.The career Hushi devoted his whole life to is to spread science. As a matter of fact, the science in his eyes refers to scientific methods, which are kept proposing in his whole life. There are two aspects included, one is experi-mentalism , the other one is supposing-mentalism , scientific methods are popularized in all his works during the 40 years and put in the most lofty position.Hushi devoted his heart and soul to spreading Chinese science. Firstly, he wanted to spread scientific methods across the under-developed china; Secondly, he wanted to propose the scientific spirits, in which the most important is skeptical spirit, next is innovative spirit, then matter-of-fact attitude is followed.These spirits have positive influence on spreading scientific methods, wiping ignorance and superstition out, instilling doctrine and reconstructing civilization. Hushi expounded on the relationship between science, philosophy and democracy. He stressed that science can be applied to the philosophy and it can help build up scientific one. China is a country which is lacking in democracy. However, the building of democracy relies on the development of science. Only when the public's scientific quality is improved can democracy be carried out. In order to spread democracy, he devoted himself to the development of scientific and educational career. He made great contributions to Chinese modern education and the development of science.