Modern time conception treats the present as continually moving

Evidence

In Antiquity, therefore, there were good grounds for thinking of everlastingness only as the present, while the contemporary conception, which is based on the identity of points in time, and which consequently has to think of the present as continually on the move, comes closer to an understanding of eternity, just as the general event of the world can perhaps be seen as a continuous creation, and thus leads to an understanding of time as the history of events. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 116

Categorization

• QUESTION: The contrast between ancient (everlasting = present) and modern (eternity = sequence of events) temporal frameworks could be worth tracing further.
• XREF: connects to: The present is a perpetual flight from being rather than a moment — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 445; Motion alone makes the present dimension of universal time apprehensible; Naming the present as a completed historical instant masks a fear of change — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 660 (+3 more)