Stanley Matthew
Isis. 2014 Sep;105(3):588-95. doi: 10.1086/678174.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many attempts to justify political and social systems on the basis of physics and astronomy. By the early twentieth century such moves increasingly also integrated the life and social sciences. The physical sciences gradually became less appealing as a sole source for sociopolitical thought. The details of this transition help explain the contemporary reluctance to capitalize on an ostensibly rich opportunity for naturalistic social reasoning: the anthropic principle in cosmology, which deals with the apparent "fine-tuning" of the universe for life.
在18和19世纪，人们多次试图以物理学和天文学为基础来论证政治和社会制度。到20世纪初，此类举措越来越多地将生命科学和社会科学也纳入其中。作为社会政治思想的唯一来源，物理科学逐渐变得不那么有吸引力了。这一转变的细节有助于解释当代人为何不愿利用一个表面上丰富的自然主义社会推理机会：宇宙学中的人择原理，该原理涉及宇宙对生命的明显“微调”。
