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来源:百度知道 编辑:UC知道 时间:2024/07/02 14:14:14
The concept of “environment” is certainly difficult and may even be misunderstood; but we have no handy substitute. It seems simple enough to distinguish between the organism and the surrounding environment and to separate forces acting on an organism into those that are internal and biological and those that are external and environmental. But in actual practice this system breaks down in many ways, because the organism and the environment are constantly interacting so that the environment is modified by the organism and vice versa.(反之亦然)

In the case of man, the difficulties with the environmental concept are even more complicated because we have to deal with man as an animal and with man as the bearer (持有者) of culture. If we look at man as an animal and try to analyze the environmental forces that are acting on the organism, we find that we have to deal with things like climate, soil, plants, and such-like factors common to all biological situations; but we also find, alwa

"环境"的概念的确很难,而且很容易被误会.但是,对它这个词我们没并没有随手可得的替代品.对于区别有机物与周围环境,以及把作用于有机物上的力分为内部的和生物的外部的和环境的,这样做似乎非常容易。但是实际上,这个系统可以通过很多方法被打破.因为,生物有机体和环境在不断变化,于是环境总是被生物体改变着,反之,生物体也被环境改变着.
对于人类,环境这个概念甚至更加复杂,因为我们得把人类当作生物,同时当作文化的持有者.如果我们把人当作动物对待,并且以此来分析作用在有机体上的环境作用,我们会发现诸如气候,土壤,植物等与其他生物环境相同的因素,但我们同时也会发现一个很重要的环境因素,它改变着我们物理和生物的环境,我们只能把它归为"文化"这一类.众所周知,人类是文化的持有者,但是,反过来,如果我们研究人类本性,我们可以发现人类同时也被气候和地理的环境因素改变着.因此,我们很容易在审视文化的重要性上遇到困难.从一方面,我们是人类的一份子,宁一方面,我们又是环境的一部分