柯林武德自然哲学思想初探

“自然”概念是柯林武德自然哲学的核心概念和逻辑基础.他认为,通过对自然的观念的研究,可以重建科学与哲学的融通关系.为了这一目的,他对历史上三种自然观,即希腊的有机自然观、文艺复兴的机械自然观和现代的进化自然观等进行了深入的分析和评述,并且指出自然的观念必将融入历史,最终走向历史的观念.这种将自然的观念纳入历史的视野,到自然观念的历史去研究自然的做法,不仅为其自然哲学注入了深刻的人文内涵,也为我们重新理解自然提供了方法论依据.

Primary Exploration on Collingwood＇s Natural Philosophy

＂ Nature＂ is the core concept and logical base of Collingwoodg natural philosophy. He hotels mat according to the study of nature, the harmonious relationship between science and philosophy can be rebuilt. For this purpose,he made a deep analysis and comments on the three kinds of natural views, which are the organic view of nature in Greece, the mechanical view of nature in Renaissance and the evolutionary view of nature in modern times. He pointed out that the idea of nature will be integrated into history and finally become history. Putting the idea of nature into the perspective of history and studying nature with the history of the idea of nature not only inject profound humanistic intension for natural philosophy but also provide evidence for us to understand nature.