Temporal passage is one global modification, not two separate events

Evidence

But are these really two problems? Let us look more closely. The Present could not pass except by becoming the before of a For-itself which constitutes itself as the after of that Present. There is then only one phenomenon: the upsurge of a new Present which is making-past the Present which it was, and the Making-Past of a Present involving the appearance of a For-itself for which this Present is going to become Past. The phenomenon of temporal becoming is a global modification since a Past which would be the Past of nothing would no longer be a Past and since a Present must be necessarily the Present of this Past. β€” Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 491

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Unifies the making-past and the upsurge of the new present into a single phenomenon, dissolving an apparent two-problem structure.
  • XREF: connects to: Temporal unity cannot be rebuilt from atemporal substances; Temporality is an internal structure of the For-itself, not external to it β€” Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 485

Broader Connections