Truth is both objective and valuable. The objectivity of truth means that the content of truth is a correct reflection of the essence and law of the object, without any subjective and arbitrary imagination. The value of truth is to examine the meaning and utility of truth to the subject, and to reveal and reflect the function, significance and function of truth. The value of truth is based on the objectivity of truth, that is to say, the value of truth lies in that it is an objective truth and reveals the essence and laws of objective things. People can achieve their set goals by guiding practice with truth. In addition, the value of truth lies in that it is the basis of subjective ability and a necessary condition for realizing human freedom. The more truth a person has, the stronger his ability.
As a philosophical category, value refers to the utility relationship that the object satisfies the needs of the subject with its own attributes. Value includes two aspects: one is the needs and interests of the subject, and the other is a certain attribute or performance of the object, and value is generated in the relationship between the two. Therefore, value is both objective and subjective. The objectivity of value lies in that value must be based on the attributes of objective things themselves, and people's needs are restricted by social and historical conditions. The subjectivity of value is as follows: whether an attribute of objective things can meet the value should be based on human needs; In addition, the value satisfaction of the same object to different subjects has the personality characteristics of the subjects.
With the development of socialized production of modern capitalism and the increasingly sharp class opposition, utopian socialists represented by Saint-Simon, Fourier and Owen in the19th century gave birth to the idea of all-round development of human beings and put forward the concept of all-round development of human beings. However, relying on the metaphysical way of thinking, these thinkers' views on human development have huge defects and are unscientific on the whole.
Scientific concept is an important part of modern concept, but it is not everything. Science makes people understand that we can make things that could not be made in the past, but what we make may not benefit mankind. Such as atomic bombs and biological weapons, are harmful to human beings. Therefore, we should also have humanistic thoughts, which always care about one problem: people. Respecting people, caring for people and caring for people means that things created will always benefit mankind and minimize the harm to mankind.
Scientific spirit and humanistic spirit are the two most precious spirits created by human beings in practice. There is a complementary relationship between them. In the transformation and construction of human society, only by paying equal attention to both can we ensure the correct direction and success of development practice.
In the new century, the integration of scientific spirit and humanistic spirit is full of opportunities and challenges. On the one hand, the reflection on the scientific crisis in the last century makes people realize the necessity of the integration of scientific spirit and humanistic spirit, thus providing a strong theoretical basis for the re-integration of the two; Continuing the scientific and technological achievements of the last century, human society has ushered in the era of knowledge economy that advocates coordinated and sustainable development, which makes it possible to re-integrate scientific spirit and humanistic spirit. On the other hand, there are still many subjective and objective factors that are not conducive to the integration of scientific spirit and humanistic spirit in human society, and these factors are likely to play an increasingly interfering role in the current era of deepening scientific and technological development. Therefore, standing on the threshold of the new century, calmly analyzing problems and thinking about how to create conditions for the integration of scientific spirit and humanistic spirit in opportunities and challenges has become an important task of our time. Under the current situation, we can promote the integration of scientific spirit and humanistic spirit from the following aspects:
(1) Vigorously develop social productive forces.
Developing social productive forces is a long-term task of mankind. Only the overall improvement of social productive forces can liberate people from the plight of material shortage, thus laying a solid material foundation for the all-round development of people and creating preconditions for the integration of scientific spirit and humanistic spirit. There is no doubt that "science and technology are the primary productive forces" in modern society. Vigorously developing social productive forces means vigorously developing science and technology. However, it must be noted that vigorously developing social productive forces at this stage should be reflected in two aspects. On the one hand, human beings should strengthen research in the field of science and technology, strive to make breakthroughs in more cutting-edge scientific and technological fields, so as to further improve the quality of human life and seek technical solutions to global problems; On the other hand, while strengthening the research in the field of science and technology, human beings should draw lessons from the past, put humanistic spirit into scientific research, and organically integrate scientific spirit and humanistic spirit in practice to guide scientific research in the right direction.
(B) reform and improve the unreasonable social system
Unreasonable social system leads to the "one-dimensional" development of people and society. Only by reforming the existing unreasonable social system and bringing "one-dimensional society" into the track of balanced development can people pay full attention to the integration of scientific spirit and humanistic spirit under the guidance of reasonable social system. In terms of specific measures, the government should take strong economic and administrative measures, combine macro-guidance with micro-regulation, guide the country's development with the idea of sustainable development, improve the supervision institutions, take strict administrative law enforcement as the compulsory guarantee, and severely crack down on and control illegal activities. In this case, the integration of scientific spirit and humanistic spirit is mandatory, but at least it is a more feasible and effective method.
(3) Reform the existing unreasonable subject setting and education methods, increase the capital investment in humanities, and advocate the balanced development of people.
The existing unreasonable discipline setting, educational methods and investment in education funds make the science discipline and humanities oppose each other, which is an important factor leading to the deviation between scientific spirit and humanistic spirit. The relevant departments have realized that the setting of disciplines is unreasonable and should make efforts to adjust the allocation of disciplines. Subject setting should not only adapt to the spread of scientific and technological knowledge, but also meet the needs of people's spiritual perfection. Educational curriculum should not only be regarded as a tool for training and indoctrination, but also as a means to develop students' understanding of ethics, cultural spirit and aesthetic values and help them form correct values. In addition, while increasing the share of humanities education, we should increase the capital investment in humanities construction and create better learning conditions for humanities. Finally, in the way of education, we should advocate quality education in the whole society. In view of this problem, the traditional thoughts of China people have played a very good guiding role in the world. China people pay attention to "harmony" and advocate the way of "harmony" since ancient times, which is of great significance to today's era. A. penzias, a famous American scientist, published a book called Harmony: Commerce, Technology and Life in the Information Age in 1995. He believes that mankind is moving from the quality era to the harmonious era, and the harmony it refers to is consistent with the "harmony" in our traditional thinking. In modern society, quality education advocates the harmonious development of education. Therefore, we should implement quality education as soon as possible, make education a bridge between scientific culture and humanistic culture, and realize the integration of scientific spirit and humanistic spirit on the basis of humanistic thought.