Day 27|科学重在消解

上句见:Day26
《哲学的故事》的第27句:序言中的第3段第3句。

Shall we be more technical? Science is analytical description, philosophy is synthetic interpretation. Science wishes to resolve the whole into parts, the organism into organs, the obscure into the known. It does not inquire into the values and ideal possibilities of things, nor into their total and final significance; it is content to show their present actuality and operation, it narrows its gaze resolutely to the nature and process of things as they are. The scientist is as impartial as Nature in Turgenev’s poem: he is as interested in the leg of a flea as in the creative throes of a genius. But the philosopher is not content to describe the fact; he wishes to ascertain its relation to experience in general, and thereby to get at its meaning and its worth; he combines things in interpretive synthesis; he tries to put together; better than before, that great universe-watch which the inquisitive scientist has analytically taken apart. Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces the death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom--desire coördinated in the light of all experience – can tell us when to heal and when to kill. To observe processes and to construct means is science; to criticize and coördinate ends is philosophy: and because in these days our means and instruments have multiplied beyond our interpretation and synthesis of ideals and ends, our life is full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. For a fact is nothing except in relation to desire; it is not complete except in relation to a purpose and a whole. Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
浙江大学版本:科学企图将整体分解为局部,将有机组合分解为器官,将不可知转化为知识。

解析

科学重在消解。这句来补充前一句中的Science is analytical description,用排比来讲述科学是怎么运作的。

1、resolve…into... to change into separate parts or a different form by usually a gradual process消解

The mixture was resolved into two parts.

2、X字句型,头短尾长,尾巴用三个并列排比。

X字句型

科学将整体的消解成各个部分,将有机体消解成器官,将模糊的事物消解成已知的。

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