论怀特海有关宗教与科学的观点

怀特海认为，影响人类最大的两种普遍力量是宗教与科学。宗教作为人性内在的形上诉求，赋予外部世界意义，其文化孕育了近代科学的诞生。专注纯粹事实的客观科学只是一种理性抽象，但它有助于人性明晰且净化了宗教观念。科学与宗教的统一不仅诉诸理论上克服抽象误置为具体的谬误，扬弃事实与价值的二元论并建构一种植根于审美价值经验哲学的努力，而且需要我们在实践中对两者之间的关系持有宽容的态度并作出积极的理解。

On Whitehead''''s Viewpoints of Religion and Science

Alfred North Whitehead thinks there are the two strongest general forces which influence men. They are religion and science. Religion, as the inherent pursuit of human nature for something which is the ultimate ideal beyond all reach, gives meaning to the external world. Religious culture breeds the spirit of science and makes the modern science come into being. Objective science which concentrates on pure facts is only the abstraction of reason. It helps clarify human nature and purify religious idea. The unity of science and religion not only theoretically depends on overcoming of 'the fallacy of misplaced concreteness', throwing away the dualistic separation of fact and value, and constituting the philosophy on the basis of experience of aesthetic value, but also practically requests us to have attitude towards the utmost toleration of variety of them, and to make positive understanding of their conflict.