The Chinese Tradition
Chinese is one of civilization's most ancient civilizations
in the world, in fact, of all the ancient civilizations of
India and Chinese civilizations have lingest history. The
uniqueness of these two civilizations is in both their seniority
and their continuity.
Like the Indian civilization, the Chinese civilization can
boast of having one of the oldest and most extensive scientific
traditions of the world. The Chinese scientific tradition
very important contributions to Western science at the same
time ancient and mecieval times. He contributed much to the
great intellectual revolution of Europe that led to the rise
of modern science.
The scientific tradition China has made remarkable progress
in all kinds of scientific inquiry. Both in the field of physics
ideas, and practical applications, the Chinese scientific tradition
has a historical position. Many of the important achievements
of the scientific tradition Chinese have indicated to Europe
by the Arabs and the Jesuit missionaries who visited china in
the early 17th century. Thus, Chinese science has been able
to play its role in the development of modern science.
Confucianism
Even during the period when China was ruled by the Shang dynasty
(1520-1030 BC), it has made remarkable progress in terms of
Bronze Age achievements. With the replacement of the Shang Dynasty
in the Chou dynasty (1030-220 BC), China has entered the Iron
Age. As in other societies "writing" was born in France
around 1000 BC. In 600 BC Iron Age civilization swept China.
Scripture has given rise to a large intellectual movement, namely
Confucianism, which became in the second century BC, officials
of the State Doctrine. But neither Confucius, the founder, nor
his supporters concerned themselves with science. In fact, Confucianism
paid little attention to the physical integrity or thought naturalist.
But Confucius stressed the value of education universal. The
widespread dissemination of literacy has enabled people to participate
in the pursuit of intellectual activities, at least to some
extent. The spread of literacy and education to the development
of ideas in China. Confucius did not allow religion and meta
physics to influence his philosophy and rationalism approach
to questions about the nature and humanity. His ideology is
free to animism and superstition. He represented a new way of
thinking radically different from the previous one. But his
thinking has not taken part in the rise of "science"
His concern was mainly on ethical and social issues. Its total
preoccupation with morality and society unable to investigate
the world of nature.
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