Studies Of Civic Culture Under The Perspective Of Scientific Spirit

Civic culture is a political culture which is coordinating with participatoryculture,village culture and subject culture;civic culture is a political culture whichbalances to rationality and responsibility mildly;the civic culture is necessary forcoming true political modernization and constructing a stable democracy.civic cultureis not forming naturally,on the contrary growing with reason. And reason just is one ofthe important core of the scientific spirit.Through exploring the law of development and evolution between scientific spiritand civic culture and analyzing the kernel of the scientific spirit,reveal the reasonswhy western countries can take the lead in establishing a modern democracy andexplore the ways and the means of nurturing scientific spirit and structuring civicculture;Through applying the method of culture studies,reveal the inherent laws ofmodern democratic political development and analyse the political and cultural waysof building a stable democracy. Based on the basic principles and theories of politicalscience,using traditional methods of historical analysis and writing with the time scaleto sort out the western history whose main line are science,the spirit of capitalism andcapitalist democracy since the seeds of capitalism,study longitudinally and insightinto its characteristics:The rough homologies of scientific spirit and the spirit ofcapitalism,civic culture,democratic system of capitalism determines the nonlinearrelationship which is complicated seemingly but distinct among them;The relationshipbetween the main connotation of scientific spirit such asfreedom,reason,tolerance,questioning,autonomy,responsibility and civic culture suchas political cognition,emotional orientation,political evaluation and sense of civiccapacity is not only the relationship of cause and effect but also the relationship ofinteraction and influence.Scientific spirit is conclusion of beliefs,values and criterions which come fromhuman long-term scientific practice;Scientific spirit is basic awareness,mentalstate,thinking mode which is determined by the science itself and throughout thescientific activities;Scientific spirit is thought or philosophy which is reflected in thescientific knowledge.Let us suppose that British and American countries have matureand steady democracy,let us also suppose that political preference and Politicalcognitive orientation determine human political behavior and then influence stabilitiesand changes of political structure,civic culture is the mode of political culture whichadapts to the need of effective and steady democracy after the distinguishing andanalysing empirically the differences of the modes of political culture between thedifferent countries in the same period and the same countries in different periods.Thebasic kernel of the scientific spirit includes consciousness of seeking the truth,innovation,criticism;the way of observation,demonstration,experiment;theattitude of rational,responsibility,participation;the value of freedom,equality,tolerance.The content of close relationship between scientific spirit and the spirit of capitalismwhich includes protestant ethic,pursuit of wealth,protestant utilitarianism is reason.Scientific spirit plays an important part in urging political conceptionchange,promoting politic secular and promoting political activitiesinstitutionalized.Scientific spirit plays an important part in influencing civics’ Rightsidea and also in the formation and development of the civil autonomy.This paper hasin-depth analysis about intrinsic logic relation between the kernel of scientific spiritand four dimensionalities of civic culture(namely,between rulesview,reason,secularization of scientific spirit and political cognition of civicculture;between tolerance and loyalty of scientific spirit and political emotions ofcivic culture;between seeking the truth,criticism,and the independent of scientificspirit and political evaluation of civic culture;betweenresponsibility,autonomy,participation of scientific spirit and civics abilityconsciousness,exercise,action of civic culture)by deductive reasoning. To clear therelationship between scientific spirit and the capitalist democracy which is bred bycivic culture,by quoting Gabriel A. Almond’s "the rational-active"model,find thebalance between power and responsibility and consensus and divergence which theycause;the balance between emotions and feelings neutral is the valve that civic culturemakes democracy stable,and Education is the most available means of forgingvalve;then make some beneficial tentative exploration about scientific spiritcultivation,civic culture construction and stable democracy construction.