Science Morality And Men

As we known, science is a typical phenomenon in our modern society. How to understand science is an important issue that many thinkers are concerned with in 21th century. John Dewey does a great of efforts in understanding science with particular ideas in his life-long time, which makes a far-reaching influence. To study Dewey's theory of science and its significance has a great contribution for understanding his philosophy, and we believe that this will help us to understand our modern society nowadays as well as human's future.In this paper I mainly study the great significance of Dewey's theory of science to solve "problems of men" in modern society. It is divided into the following three chapters.In chapter one, "Scientificism and Humanism", through analyzing the two concepts "scientificism" and "humanism", my conclusion is that Dewey's thought has a new characteristics of scientific humanism. In chapter two, " The Extension of the Morality ", I believe that Dewey established an ethics of experimentalism on the basis of unification of "scientific judgment" and "moral judgment". I emphasize that Dewey reconstructs traditional moral theory by scientific spirit and method. In chapter three," The Place of Science in Modern Society", I discuss the problem of important role that modern science plays in democracy and education and analyze Dewey's scientific spirit and method on the background of enlightenment. At the same time, I believe that intelligent scientific spirit and method of experimentalism have great contributions for the future of human being. But I also recognize that Dewey's experimentalism is not a perfect philosophical thery.