"现代性"与人文社会科学的兴衰

古希腊的学术是摆脱实际需要,探求人的自由全面发展的智慧学问.在近代自然科学发展及其实际效用的影响下,一些因其可以应用自然科学方法,探求社会普遍规律并以此理性地筹划社会的社会科学得到相应发展;相反,那些不能应用自然科学方法来探求普遍规律,因而无实际效用的人文学科相应失落.从一定意义上讲,现代性与人文社会科学的进展关系是一个合二为一的过程,前者甚至是后者的一个技术理性筹划的结果.

"Modernity" and the Rise and Fall of Humane Social Sciences

Ancient Greek academic research is intelligent learning which breaks aw ay from actual needs and probes into human being's overall development Under the influence of the development and actual effect of modern natural sciences, some social sciences develop accordingly in that they apply the method of natural sc iences to probing into universal social law and come up with rational social pla nning. By contrast, other social sciences which fail to do so get lost. in a s en se, the ongoing relationship between modernity and humane social sciences is a p rocess of combing two into one. The former is even technically and rationally p lanned result of the latter.