论赵元任早年的时间观

ZHAO Yuan-ren's Concept of Time in His Early Period of Theory

赵元任早年全面系统地介绍了西方测度时间体系和线性时间观念,促进了国人对西方现代时间观的理解,有利于西学的传播和中国近代社会的革新。同时,赵元任分析了时间的主、客观性质,对绝对时间观发表了独到的见解,并将时间作为新时代重要的价值标准引入了中国伦理。他的时间观对中国时间观的嬗变起到了重要的作用,为中国科学和哲学的近代化作出了杰出的贡献。

In his early years, ZHAO Yuan-ren thoroughly and systematically introduced, from the west, the system of measuring time and the concept of linear time,to advance the Chinese comprehension of the western modern concept of time. Such is good for the spread of Western knowledge and China＇s social reform in modern times. ZHOU analyzed the subjective and objective qualities of time with a unique theoretic idea. Time is introduced as a very important value standard in the new era into Chinese ethical system. His time concept played an important role in the development of Chinese time concept, and contributed outstandingly to the modernization of Chinese science and philosophy.