中国古代哲学中的时间与存在

人类生活实践的深化导致精神对实践的反思日益深入,影响到中国古代思想对世界的存在与时间性的理解。在殷人的意义世界中,时间是神话时间和历法时间的交织;时间与存在混然同一,是唯一普遍的存在关联。在周初思想中,实践的深化强化了人们对事物因果性的意识,导致时间开始被去神话化和伦理化,蜕变为一种普遍的宇宙和伦理时间。在春秋以降的思想中,对实践的内在反思最后使事物的存在呈现为完全由自身因果性决定且在时间中自身持续的,即具有自身必然性的、现实的存在,与之相应的是儒、墨等家思想中的现实的时间,而后期道家则企图解构这一时间。这些思考决定了中国古代哲学对时间与存在的基本理解。

Time and Being in Ancient Chinese Philosophy

The forms of time conception and its development are determined by the living practice and corresponding reflection of human being.Time in the sense world of Shang people was the unity of mythical time and calendar time while time was in identity with being and the solitary general connection of being.The deepening of practice in early Zhou thought intensified the consciousness of causality,and ushered the demythologization and moralization of time,therefore time was converted into a cosmologic and ethical ...