Forest Thought in the Stage of Forest Industrial Utilization

Abstract

The rise of modern science has brought about "The Disenchantment of the World" summarized by Max Weber. Disenchantment means a fundamental change in the way of understanding the world. Scientific discourse with rationalization as its essential feature has replaced religious discourse with faith as its essential feature and has become the most dominant world view. Disenchantment shows the basic characteristics and trends of the overall development of society. It strips away the mysterious meaning of the world by criticizing the construction of the world by the subjective spirit, and uses scientific and technological rationality to present the structure and appearance of the world. In this process, the world becomes an object to be understood and transformed by "I", rather than a community that shares weal and woe. Descartes' metaphysical dualism and mechanism established the main view of nature at this stage. Nature has become a huge and complex mechanical system, and mathematics and geometry are the most effective tools to describe mechanical systems. In an era when the world has become a machine, forests have also lost their subject status and become objects to be analyzed mathematically; at this stage, forests exist as "resources" in more and more places. Then people become users and beneficiaries of resources, and forests become the objects of human management and use. Scientific methods have become the main method in all fields of society. Forests that conform to mathematical ideals have become standard forests. Forests that were originally wild have become huge laboratories, filled with mathematical rules and human utility.