Time,
or more properly 'temporality', is a monumental constitutive element of Dasein (or 'Being-There').
We understand time,
in an everyday way.
We, say, check the time on our cell phones when we desire the extension of Being in time.
Often times nowadays,
people, in an everyday way, will ask others for the time...
Why are we so obsessed with temporality? In an everyday manner,
let us explore the concept of temporality.
Time is, in some sense, absolute.
The whole truth about time is simply that the constitutive element of Dasein's understanding of governing principals in the world is in time-as-such. We understand, in an everyday way, how time is comported within by ontically oriented Beings. The clock. The wrist watch.
or even as our forefathers understood it,
a pocket watch.
What do we receive electro-chemically when we desire to know the precise time?
By checking the time,
we are in an everyday sense, ontologically orienting our understanding towards Being-in-time.
As such,
the absolute nature of time, with the finality of being toward our own ultimate end, is constituted by our always being within time, or temporally historical Being-Towards-Death.
Temporality is such that when we look at our watch, we are experiencing the true nature of Reason.
Reason dictates our understanding of time,
and as such the Absolute always preconfigures our understanding of a Dasein's Being-In-The-World.
Checking the time, phenomenologically, could be considered a kind of comportment of our Ontological "circumspect nature".
We circumspect in a pre-conscious way with our temporally defined Being,
and our desire for order is part and parcel of the entire linear nature of time...
But how linear is time?
We count in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries... Even Millenniums!
But ask yourself this...
How did my ancestors understand time? Was it the same for them as today for ourselves?
Perhaps the linearity of the present age is merely the unchanging nature of the moment.
The present moment is both after the time before, and before the time after.
So what role does the present temporal mode of Dasein's being play in Historical-Being,
and how are we to understand time?
Let's examine everything we know about time,
and come to a conclusion on Dasein's temporal nature.
When we are "Being-There",
we are in the present-as-such,
or the "current moment in time".
So can we understand comporting ourselves within time as within history?
The historicity of time I'd suppose solves the problem of our being "in the moment".
Temporal understanding of the historicity of time can come about with an understanding (verstehen) of ourselves as "in" time.
We are within an absolute construct,
the ticking away of seconds on a universally understood clock.
So is there any way to transcend time?
I would say it's unlikely because whether we are conscious of it or not,
the "Time" is Absolute - so to speak.
So the absolute nature of the temporality of our being can easily be discerned through everyday conceptions of temporality...
For example,
"time is money".
Is it really?
I'd suppose so if you're "on the clock".
Or the obvious,
"We're running out of time".
This seems to indicate a kind of primordial conception of time being constitutive of our own utmost potential for Being-In-The-World.
The everydayness of Time is something to be existentially put into perspective.
Why are we so desperate when it comes to the temporal complex of the universe-as-such?
Perhaps because "Time" is so sublimated to the subjective aspect of our verstehen,
but can be considered Absolute, and there is no escaping it.
What about God?
Does he understand Time?
Did he create time?
When people die and go to the afterlife,
Do they experience time the way everyday Dasein's do?
I would speculate that the only way to "escape the clock" is through Care-as-such,
and a relationship with the Absolute.
Thanks for reading,
DDU 2020
or more properly 'temporality', is a monumental constitutive element of Dasein (or 'Being-There').
We understand time,
in an everyday way.
We, say, check the time on our cell phones when we desire the extension of Being in time.
Often times nowadays,
people, in an everyday way, will ask others for the time...
Why are we so obsessed with temporality? In an everyday manner,
let us explore the concept of temporality.
Time is, in some sense, absolute.
The whole truth about time is simply that the constitutive element of Dasein's understanding of governing principals in the world is in time-as-such. We understand, in an everyday way, how time is comported within by ontically oriented Beings. The clock. The wrist watch.
or even as our forefathers understood it,
a pocket watch.
What do we receive electro-chemically when we desire to know the precise time?
By checking the time,
we are in an everyday sense, ontologically orienting our understanding towards Being-in-time.
As such,
the absolute nature of time, with the finality of being toward our own ultimate end, is constituted by our always being within time, or temporally historical Being-Towards-Death.
Temporality is such that when we look at our watch, we are experiencing the true nature of Reason.
Reason dictates our understanding of time,
and as such the Absolute always preconfigures our understanding of a Dasein's Being-In-The-World.
Checking the time, phenomenologically, could be considered a kind of comportment of our Ontological "circumspect nature".
We circumspect in a pre-conscious way with our temporally defined Being,
and our desire for order is part and parcel of the entire linear nature of time...
But how linear is time?
We count in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries... Even Millenniums!
But ask yourself this...
How did my ancestors understand time? Was it the same for them as today for ourselves?
Perhaps the linearity of the present age is merely the unchanging nature of the moment.
The present moment is both after the time before, and before the time after.
So what role does the present temporal mode of Dasein's being play in Historical-Being,
and how are we to understand time?
Let's examine everything we know about time,
and come to a conclusion on Dasein's temporal nature.
When we are "Being-There",
we are in the present-as-such,
or the "current moment in time".
So can we understand comporting ourselves within time as within history?
The historicity of time I'd suppose solves the problem of our being "in the moment".
Temporal understanding of the historicity of time can come about with an understanding (verstehen) of ourselves as "in" time.
We are within an absolute construct,
the ticking away of seconds on a universally understood clock.
So is there any way to transcend time?
I would say it's unlikely because whether we are conscious of it or not,
the "Time" is Absolute - so to speak.
So the absolute nature of the temporality of our being can easily be discerned through everyday conceptions of temporality...
For example,
"time is money".
Is it really?
I'd suppose so if you're "on the clock".
Or the obvious,
"We're running out of time".
This seems to indicate a kind of primordial conception of time being constitutive of our own utmost potential for Being-In-The-World.
The everydayness of Time is something to be existentially put into perspective.
Why are we so desperate when it comes to the temporal complex of the universe-as-such?
Perhaps because "Time" is so sublimated to the subjective aspect of our verstehen,
but can be considered Absolute, and there is no escaping it.
What about God?
Does he understand Time?
Did he create time?
When people die and go to the afterlife,
Do they experience time the way everyday Dasein's do?
I would speculate that the only way to "escape the clock" is through Care-as-such,
and a relationship with the Absolute.
Thanks for reading,
DDU 2020
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