量的概念与王充的无神论学说

The Concept of Quantities in Wang Chong's Theory of Atheism

王充是东汉杰出的无神论思想家。他通过对当时社会上流行的各种神学思想的批判 ,建立了自己无神论的理论体系。在进行这种批判的过程中 ,他特别注意考查不同物体同一属性在大小、多少等方面的差异 ,注意物体的尺度、重量等属性以及物体间相互作用范围、远近距离变化等因素 ,以此来揭露批判对象的荒谬 ,这使他形成了注重量的概念的独特思想方法 ,使得量的概念成了他建立自己的无神论学说的一个重要出发点。王充这一思想方法的形成是由他所处的时代及其学术取向所决定的。

Wang Chong is an outstanding ideologist of atheism in the East Han dynasty. He established his theoretical system of atheism by criticising all kinds of theological parlance then. When criticizing the theologies, he paid great attention to inspecting the differences among the same properties of different objects about their size, amount, weight, the scope of their reciprocities and the changes of their distance and so on. He used such a method to disclose the absurdness of theologies then and formed a special way of thinking for him and made it became an important support for him to establish his atheism theories. The formation of such a way of thinking of him was determined by times he lived and the learned directions he chose.