How to live well is fundamentally a question of how to spend time.
Evidence
One might say that where someone like Martin Heidegger engages in a philosophical exploration of the relationship between being and time, Rosa’s work can be seen as a critical social theory of the relationship between social criticism and time. Beginning with the broadly Heidegger-inspired insight that the question how we want to live is equivalent to the question how we want to spend our time, the temporal-structural approach to critical social science reveals that “the manner of our being-in-the-world depends to a great degree on the temporal structures of the society in which we live.” — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 47
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: States the key equivocation — living and time-spending as one question — that anchors the whole ethical turn of the theory.
Related
- How we live is equivalent to how we spend our time. (similarity 0.93)
- Temporal structures mediate between individual life-plans and systemic requirements. (similarity 0.85)
- Temporal structures lie at the center of ethics (similarity 0.84)
- The temporal structures of a society shape our sense of being in the world (similarity 0.78)