Past, Present, Future represent a system
which masquerades as a distinction
The triadic structure of past, present, future, represent a system which
is nothing other than a tautology masquerading as an an analytical distinction
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According to Heidegger there is a conception of time as a series of nows which is shared by ordinary people and philosophers from Aristotle to Bergson.
According to Heidegger there is a conception of time as a series of nows which is shared by ordinary people and philosophers from Aristotle to Bergson.
These philosophers and ordinary
people will view time with its fundamental terminology of ‘past’
‘present’ ‘future ‘ as primordial entity from which the human experience of
time is derived.
Heidegger views time differently. In
simple terms, for Heidegger time is not something which exists in the world and is
then reflected in the human mind but something which arises from human beings (Dasein)
and is then projected onto to the world. According to this view it is a mistake
to think that human beings passively experience the time of the outside world.
For Heidegger , the concept of time
in general is actively produced by human modes of being which subsequently
temporarises our sense of the world. This is in fact what time it is the process of temporising
We must hold ourselves aloof from all those
significations of past present future. These tensed terms have arisen out
of our inauthentic ways of looking at time.
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