从价值哲学到价值科学的发展

在科学技术革命的影响下,人类的实践结果积累到了前所未有的丰富程度,人化自然成为人类生活世界的主要基础,这个充满人为事物、以物质文明为核心的人类结果领域,构成特殊的价值世界.从宇宙进化链来看,价值世界是进化的表现环节之一.随着价值世界的出现和发展,我们有了自然、社会、思维(主观精神世界)、价值等多个"世界".相应地,我们有自然科学、社会科学和思维科学(包括心理学)分别对前三个世界加以研究,但尚没有跟价值世界相对应的科学领域.因此,应当建立价值科学.价值科学是一个大的门类,它同自然科学、社会科学、思维科学等属于同一个序列的科学研究领域.价值科学不同于哲学意义上的价值论(价值哲学).

Transfer from Value Theory to Value Sciences

Under the influence of the scientific and technological revolution, the results of human activities have been greatly enriched. Humanized nature has been the base of human life world. All these results, full of manmade articles, constitute a world of particular value. From the aspect of general evolution, there are natural world, society, mind, value, and other worlds. In accordance with these various worlds, there have been natural sciences, social sciences and mind sciences (including psychology and cognitive sciences) . However, these categories of sciences only study the first three worlds (nature, society and mind) . No categories can match the other two - value world and knowledge world. Therefore, if we accept the chain of the general evolution, we should have these two new categories of sciences ?value science and knowledge science. They are two categories but not just scientific disciplines. What should be mentioned is that both value science and knowledge science are two categories with many specific disciplines. Thus, value science is different from theory of value / axiology (or philosophy of value) and therefore knowledge science from theory of knowledge and philosophy of science.