从《地理哲学》看白眉初的地理观

Bai Meichu's Ideas on Geography Expressed in his Geographical Philosophy

白眉初是我国从古代地理常识向新时代的科学地理学过渡阶段,大力传播地理学知识,承前启后的启蒙者之一。《地理哲学》是代表其地理思想的重要著作。从该著作中可以看到,白眉初坚持地理学的自然科学学科属性,并认为地理学具有"理体文用"的特点;同时,他认为地理学是一门具有宏观性、变化性、时效性和很强教育功能的学科,主张从人地关系视角进行地理学研究。白眉初《地理哲学》中的许多思想均具有很强的现实意义。

Bai Meichu was a famous geographer in China.Geographical Philosophy published in 1923 was one of his representative works.In this book,he claimed that geography belongs to natural science which could be applied to the field of humanities and social sciences.In his view,geography is characterized by being macroscopical,changeable from time to time and from place to place,and temporarily effective for a given period of time and having a strong educational function.He advocated doing geography studies from the perspective of man-environment relationship.Many of the ideas in Geographical Philosophy have strong practical significance.