Motion alone makes the present dimension of universal time apprehensible

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

If time is ‘the being which, in being, is not and in non-being, is’, then this also means, rigorously put: ‘Time itself is not what it is.’ Time is not always (simultaneously, successively, and permanently) the same as itself. The concept of time has its own moments: it differentiates itself and thus temporalizes itself. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 254 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Time divides analytically into a static before-after order and a dynamic flowing course.; Motion emerges only for the For-itself as the temporal constitution of space — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 643; Time is not identical to itself but differentiates and temporalizes itself — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 254 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Modern time conception treats the present as continually moving #corroborates (0.85) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 116
• Constancy and event are mutually exclusive yet complementary ways of identifying time #complicates (0.78)
• Time is not identical to itself but differentiates and temporalizes itself #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 254
• The dynamic of duration raises two distinct problems about the Past and Present #expands (0.75)
• Time is plastic because it differentiates itself both synchronically and diachronically #expands (0.72)