近代西方的科技伦理思想宝兴与１６世纪上半期至１９世纪末近代西方自然科学的产生、发展和成熟相适应，其科技伦理思想也得到了长足的发展而趋于成熟。恩格斯指出：“资产阶级为广发展它的工业生产，需要有探察自然物体的物理特性和自然力的活动方式的科学。”（《马克思... Modern Western science and technology ethics Baoxing and the late sixteenth Century to the late nineteenth Century Western modern natural sciences to adapt to the production, development and maturity of its ethics of science and technology has also made considerable development and maturing. Engels pointed out: “The bourgeoisie needs to have scientific methods of exploring the physical characteristics and the natural forces of natural objects in order to expand its industrial production.”