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題 名 | Time, Religion and History in India |
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作 者 | Mukhia, Harbans; | 書刊名 | 臺大歷史學報 |
卷 期 | 29 2002.06[民91.06] |
頁 次 | 頁169-180 |
分類號 | 737 |
關鍵詞 | Indian philosophy; Linear time; Cyclical time; Ancient India; Medieval India; Modern India; |
語 文 | 英文(English) |
英文摘要 | The conventional Positivist division of historical time into linear (Western) and cyclical (Oriental) is based upon tearing the discussion, especially that of cyclical time, away from its religio-philosophical context and treating it entirely as an empirical given. In reality, in various strands of Indian philosophy time is perceived as a mosaic of patterns rather than a monochrome, and is fluid, open to varying interpretations, rather than frozen. Nor is time in India viewed exclusively as a mythical moment. This paper briefly seeks to trace the outlines of the mosaic. It goes on to discuss the altogether new concept of historical time introduced by Islam in India’s medieval centuries and the Western concept by the British in the 19th and 20th. It concludes by touching upon the residual, pre-literate notion of time in India’s tribal culture. |
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