Lived life always experiences the present as stretched with past and future
Evidence
We acknowledge the force of this paradox, however, only for the logically observed object. The subjectively lived life will not adjust to it. The latter feels itself, no matter whether logically justified or not, as something real in a temporal dimension. Common usage indicates this, if in an inexact and superficial way, by understanding under “present” never the bare punctuality of its conceptual sense, but always including a bit of the past and a somewhat smaller bit of the future. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 803
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Life’s self-transcendence makes time real, unlike analytical separation of tenses — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 809; Life alone realizes time by transcending the present in both directions — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 808; Life’s present continuously stretches into the future rather than aiming at fixed goals — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 807 (+6 more)
Related
- Life alone realizes time by transcending the present in both directions (similarity 0.89)
- Life’s self-transcendence makes time real, unlike analytical separation of tenses (similarity 0.86)
- Life’s present continuously stretches into the future rather than aiming at fixed goals (similarity 0.86)
- Every particular psychic content is exceeded by lived experience itself (similarity 0.85)
- Augustine defines past and future as present memory and expectation (similarity 0.83)
- Strictly conceived, reality is not temporal at all (similarity 0.83)
- Life must be lived forwards even though it can only be understood backwards (similarity 0.81)
- The present is a perpetual flight from being rather than a moment (similarity 0.81)
- Everyday psychic duration stands opposed to authentic historicity (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Augustine defines past and future as present memory and expectation
#expands(0.75) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 1391 - Every particular psychic content is exceeded by lived experience itself
#expands(0.60) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 829