The Chinese Philosophical Thinking of Time

Shi is commonly translated into English as “time”. Time is an intellectual concept that requires a metaphoric model since time has no concrete reality. “Before 1915 space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it,” “space and time are now dynamic quantities…space and time not only affect but also are affected by everything that happens in the universe,” Stephen Hawking remarks, on the personal level, “it was natural to think that space and time went on forever.” (Hawking, 33) Most of us conceptualize time, and conceive time as something we can spend, save, invest, or borrow, even win or lose. [Read more] ...