洋务运动时期,顽固派与洋务派围绕着西方社会与科学技术、中国圣贤与科学技术两个问题展开了针锋相对的激烈争论。洋务派冲破了传统主流思想的束缚,认识到发展科学技术不仅是中国面临的国际竞争的迫切需要,也是自身经济社会发展的迫切需要,从思想上为中国近代科学技术的初步发展开辟了道路。 During the Westernization Movement, the die-hards and the Westernizationists launched a tit-for-tat fierce debate on two issues: the Western society and science and technology, the Chinese sages and science and technology. The Westernizationists have broken the shackles of the traditional mainstream thinking and realized that the development of science and technology is not only an urgent need for international competition that China faces but also an urgent need for its own economic and social development. It has ideologically opened the way for the initial development of science and technology in modern China.