When we look around,
asking our loved ones what time it is...
or glance at the clock hungering for time to get done and over with,
when dreams seem to last an eternity yet the entire spectrum of temporality whips by at a quick tempo...
Or when a good time with jollity seems to be gone so quickly!
What do all of these have in common?
The stratification of the temporality spectrum by an individual conscience through expanding or contracting time... we hunger for temporal certitude, yet are stratified in Being-There, in a state of within-timeness within the worldhood of the world.
Why?
Why time?
We have sun dials,
we have wrist watches,
we have computers and technology that give us an understanding of the spectrum of within-timeness...
What do they have in common? Universal subjectivity, and individual Absolute-Being-There as in some sense prefigured by the laws of not just clocks, but the organization of weeks, months, decades, centuries or millennia?
I don't want to presuppose time-as-such's temporality as a self temporalization of the spectrum of stratified time as it appears to the phenomenal consciousness, but it seems in some sense the only epistemological delimiting of time happens in our own apprehension surrounding transcendence of the "I" being somehow limited in a spectrum of deterministic stratification within Being-As-Selfhood In-The-World by virtue of the Freedom of Will to Truth.
Time is a quandary,
and there are all kinds of interesting articles and scientific studies related to how we go about keeping time etc.
...but that's not what I'll be talking about here.
What about losing time?
We keep time in that it's lost in a fleeting spectrum of stratified Being. It's lost in the cognitive spandrel of our neuro-chemistry, and we find time in the world as a kind of way to be a being Being-There in the world and within-time. Lost time, still has a kind of facticity. Time kept, is found in the future temporalizing its own proximity as the teleological delimiting of the past futuralizing itself out of present-at-hand presence and ready-at-handedness!
why?
look to the horizon...
In the east,
there is Juliet.
In the west there are the Montegues.
Love, as understood here, is seen as a death wish of sorts...
and speaking of time,
by all accounts Romeo & Juliet were young teenagers... around 16 or so.
So with all of their time spent in this death pact,
bothe of them are dead in 3 days.
So the past for them was neoromantic; whereas the future temporalizes itself out of the presence-at-handedness within Shakespearean worship of beauty through erotic love...
Beauty,
Through Eros...
How does time expand and contract in Love as such?
What is ugly and profane,
and what is charming and pretty,
in regards to the phenomenological apprehension of time?
The apparent,
the subconscious,
the intelligent,
the foolish?
What does man lose when the Horizon of Worldhood becomes the Being of the temporalization of temporality throughout and within the temporality of time as such? What profit's a man, if he should gain the whole world, and yae- all of eternity? Can we really "Master" temporality?
I'd wager these are all just simple ways of setting the table, so as to address the apprehension of time as:
1) Apparent
2) Definite
3) Subjective
and
4) Absolute
Absolute Temporalization could be looked at as the entirety of God's creation bestowed upon the world as such in Humankind's immortal fallenness by the virtue of Sin in the primordial dichotomy of "GOOD" and "EVIL"... is this dichotomy outside of time?
Don't good and evil have definite spans of time? Is time, as such, Absolute?
Subjectivity-as-Objectivity in our present age's transcendental realism would have qualms with such statements - but I would say that there is the characteristic of 'within-timeness' with which to view our own Will to Truth. We are 'in time'. The future will descend into the present-at-hand. And pure presence-at-hand is limited to the strictures of the free choices we make with existentiell "Where-to-Be".
We can take the future,
and delimit the epistemological horizon by virtue of our own physical present-at-handedness, by virtue of our always having already been 'there', and by virtue of the ecstasis of temporality temporalizing the future into the present and past. The ecstatic truth about Time is that it is both Objectively 'definite' and merely apparently apprehended subjectively in the spectrum of temporalization (proximally and for the most part) simultaneously. The Absolute Being-There of our apparent worldhood in a world is subjectively definite in that we are both 'within time' or 'without' it.
If I don't have time,
then surely the present-at-handedness of Dasein is delimited by pure presence-at-hand delimiting time in a teleology of episteme. The limits of space,
are apprehended subconsciously -
The limits of time are apparent epistemologically...
The purpose of time is in fact the fallenness of Dasein in Being-Towards-Death,
our 'having been thrown'
and the horizon upon which the new philosophers can find the clear Absolute limits of temporality,
while delimiting the boundaries of our fallen-within-timeness through Free Will.
Choose freely...
R.I.P. Bob Solomon
DDU 2021 R.T. Stillwell
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