威廉·莱斯系统地考察了“控制自然”观念的历史演变,指出“控制自然”观念自文艺复兴运动以后,已经成为资产阶级意识形态的内在组成部分和控制人的工具,它必然会导致自然的异化和人的异化。莱斯强调只有实现制度的变革和科学技术伦理价值观的转换,才能实现自然和人的解放。 William Rice systematically examined the historical evolution of the notion of “controlling nature” and pointed out that since the Renaissance Movement, the notion of “controlling nature” has become an intrinsic part of the bourgeois ideology and a tool for controlling people. Will inevitably lead to the natural alienation and alienation. Rice emphasized that the realization of emancipation of nature and man can be achieved only through the transformation of the institutional system and the ethical values ​​of science and technology.