伽利略被审原因探析

众所周知，伽利略因自己的科学信念而被审判。事实上导致他被审判的原因非常复杂，学者们就此争论不休，不过，可以肯定导致他被审的原因绝不仅仅是他的科学信念。笔者认为，导致伽利略被审的原因既有政治形势的影响，也与他的宗教和科学信念有关，更与他的哲学立场密切相关。这其中既有偶然因素，也有必然因素。具体说来，主要有如下几个方面的原因：一、他所处的时代使他身不由己地卷入了一场天主教与新教的严酷的政治斗争之中；二、他在神学上关于解释《圣经》的观点被视为有异端倾向，他的科学方法论所具有的反权成的特色使他在哲学上得罪了亚里士多德派的经院哲学家；三、他又很不合时宜地得罪了教皇；以上种种因素汇集在一起，促成了他的悲剧性的结局，使他很不幸地成了一个牺牲品。

Analysis on the Causes of Galileo''''s Being Tried

It in well known that Galileo was tried for his scientific belief. In fact the reasons leading to his trial were complicated and scholars disagreed widely on the issue. But it is sure that his trial was NOT due to his scientific belief alone, the era saw him involved in the severe political struggle between the Catholicism and the Protestantism, has methodology characterized by his anti-authority attitude made him taken as a heresy in theology and the enemy of the Aristotelian scholastic philosophers. And he hurt the Pope's feeling on the improper occasion. All the factors caused him to become a victim.