Strictly conceived, reality is not temporal at all
Evidence
The present, in the strict logical sense of the term, does not encompass more than the absolute “unextendedness” of a moment. It is as little time as the point is space. It denotes merely the collision of past and future, which two alone make up time of any magnitude, that is, real time. But since the one is no longer, and the other not yet, reality adheres to the present alone. This means that reality is not at all something temporal. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 802
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; Time depends on space, itself a fictitious entity, for any meaning — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 422 (+2 more)
Related
- Life alone realizes time by transcending the present in both directions (similarity 0.88)
- Life’s self-transcendence makes time real, unlike analytical separation of tenses (similarity 0.87)
- Time depends on space, itself a fictitious entity, for any meaning (similarity 0.85)
- The present is a perpetual flight from being rather than a moment (similarity 0.84)
- The instant is only a nothingness; we perceive only continuous temporalization. (similarity 0.83)
- Lived life always experiences the present as stretched with past and future (similarity 0.83)
- Everyday psychic duration stands opposed to authentic historicity (similarity 0.83)
- Temporalized totality is never achieved but flees from itself. (similarity 0.82)
- Time is constituted by the For-itself’s nothingness rather than inhering in objects (similarity 0.81)
- Constancy and event are mutually exclusive yet complementary ways of identifying time (similarity 0.81)
- Time is not the container of becoming but is itself the becoming (similarity 0.81)
- Motion alone makes the present dimension of universal time apprehensible (similarity 0.80)
- Temporal unity cannot be rebuilt from atemporal substances (similarity 0.80)
- Temporality exists only as the intra-structure of the For-itself, which temporalizes itself. (similarity 0.79)
- Treating time as a series of nows annihilates past, present, and future alike (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Life alone realizes time by transcending the present in both directions
#contradicts(0.70) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 808 - Life’s self-transcendence makes time real, unlike analytical separation of tenses
#qualifies(0.60) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 809