亚美文化连续体背景下的科学--"李约瑟问题"的人类学观察

“科学”是西方话语霸权中的术语。亚美文化连续体是西方文明以外的一个普遍性的人类学现象,它以宇宙整体性、连续性为特征。亚美文化连续体中的“科学”受意识形态的约束,与西方文明中的“科学”有完全不同的意义。“李约瑟问题”实际上是西方中心论的产物,它的学说根源是社会单线发展的进化论。在亚美文化连续体的背景下面,不存在李约瑟所质疑的中国“科学技术”落后的问题。西方术语体系中的“李约瑟问题”只是亚美文化连续体中的一个悖论。

Science Under Asian-American Continuity:Anthropological Perspective of "Needham Puzzle"

Science" is a term in the Western Language hegenomy. Asian and American Cultural Continuity is a common anthropological phenomenon outside the Western civilization, featured with cosmic entirety and continuity. Restricted by ideology, the term "science" in the Asian and American Cultural Continuity has a totally different meaning from what it means in Western civilization. Actually, " Needhara puzzle "is only the result of the concept of regarding the West as the center, originated from the theory of evolution, which maintains that the society develops in a single line. The backwardness of China's "science & technology" , queried by Dr. Joseph Needham,does not exist in the background of the Asian and American Cultural Continuity. " Needham puzzle" in Western terminology is just a paradox in the Asian and American Cultural Continuity.