*クロノス時間とカイロス時間とは何？
人間には二つの時間の概念があります。一つはクロノス時間と言われるものです。過去から未来に直線的に進む時間で、時計が刻む客観的な時間を意味します。もう一つはカイロス時間です。こちらは出来事やそのサイクルなどで人間が主観的に感じる心理的な時間を指します。「昼と夜」「月の満ち欠け」「春夏秋冬」などの自然のリズムで永劫回帰する循環運動を繰り返しています。現代では、時間と言えば普通はクロノス時間を指すことが多いですが、昔はカイロス的に太陽の出没で「一日」を知り、月の満ち欠けで「一月」を知りました。太陽と月は時間の単位を知らせてくれる特別な存在だったのです。ちなみにクロノス、カイロスはギリシャ神話に出てくる時の神様の名前です。
*What are Chronos and Kairos time?
Humans have two concepts of time. One is known as Chronos time, which is the linear progression from past to future, representing the objective time marked by clocks. The other is Kairos time, referring to the subjective, psychological time that humans feel through events and their cycles. It repeats in eternal recurrence through natural rhythms like "day and night," "phases of the moon," and "the four seasons." In modern times, when we talk about time, we usually mean Chronos time, but in the past, people used the sunrise and sunset to mark "a day" and the phases of the moon to mark "a month" in a Kairos sense. The sun and moon were special entities that informed units of time. By the way, Chronos and Kairos are the names of gods of time in Greek mythology.
