Descartes and Kant both assigned temporal unity to an extra-temporal being

Evidence

There remains the possibility that this relation before-after can exist only for a witness who establishes it. The difficulty is that if this witness can be simultaneously in A and in B, it is because he is himself temporal, and the problem will be raised anew for him. Or rather, on the contrary, he can transcend time by a gift of temporal ubiquity which is equivalent to non-temporality. This is the solution at which both Descartes and Kant stopped. For them temporal unity, at the heart of which is revealed the synthetic relation before-after, is conferred on the multiplicity of instants by a being who himself escapes temporality. Both of them start from the presupposition of a time which would be a form of division and which itself dissolves in pure multiplicity. Since the unity of time can not be furnished by time itself, both philosophers put an extra-temporal being in charge of it: God and his continuous creation with Descartes, the “I think” (Ich denke) and its forms of synthetic unity with Kant. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 465

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the two classical solutions to the unity-of-time problem that Sartre is about to reject.
• XREF: Connects to Kant’s first Critique and Descartes’ continuous creation doctrine; also provides the systematic backdrop for Beauvoir’s later treatment of temporality in The Ethics of Ambiguity. — connects to: Augustine anticipated both Descartes cogito and Kant time theories — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 1394; Temporality cannot be derived from atemporal being or imposed upon it; Hegel’s time concept fuses Aristotle’s now-analysis with Kant’s pure form of sensibility — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 255

Broader Connections

• Augustine anticipated both Descartes cogito and Kant time theories #responds-to (0.80) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 1394
• Temporality cannot be derived from atemporal being or imposed upon it #qualifies (0.75)