Huxley's Theory Of Evolution And Its Application In View Of Nature And Ethics Of The Scientific Method

Thomas Henry Huxley is a famous scientist, philosopher and educationalist of Britain in19th century. As one leader of science in the19th century, his scientific thoughts are not brought to the attention of the people for a long time. In contrary, what people pay more attention to is that he defended for evolution. This paper will discuss Huxley’s scientific thought, especially its unique scientific method, which have very important practical significance to promote the scientific spirit, spread scientific thought and scientific method, and also popularize scientific knowledge.This paper consists of introduction and three chapters, the introduction is a brief introduction of Huxley himself, significance of the subject, research status, the innovation points and the research methods.The first part is mainly about Huxley’s view of nature thoughts, including the understanding of the "evolution", the evolution of organic world and inorganic world. It is integrated with the mainstream of evolution theory.The second part is mainly the study of Huxley’s scientific methods, including the effective premise of scientific method, the first principles of science:suspect, the universal scientific method and the internal relation between natural thoughts and methodology. Based on the above two chapters, it is thought that the scientific thought of Huxley and its concept of nature is relative.The third part is mainly about the evolutionary ethics of Huxley. It is discussed how to apply the evolutionary view of nature to the field of moral philosophy, namely ethics field. What’s more, noticing the difference between nature and human society, he thought that this theory of evolution cannot be completely applied to human society. Thus, he proposes a new evolutionary ethics.