Science and Scientificity

The idea that science is value-free is quite common. This is reasonable to some extent, but is biased on the whole. In this criterion, it is hard to understand properly the relationships between science and value and between science and society, as well as the status and effect of science in modernization drive. The origin of this thought is that some people regard science as only a “knowledge system” and a theoretical form, without realizing that science actually is a kind of practical activity and also a special cultural form during the human’s exploration of the world. Taking science for static theoretical knowledge will prone to draw the conclusion that science is independent of value. However, from a dynamic, historical, and cultural angle, it will be easy to find the valueladen of science and the interaction between science and other practical activities and cultural forms of the human. Therefore, a comprehensive understanding of the essence of science is indispensable.