Time divides analytically into a static before-after order and a dynamic flowing course.

Evidence

TEMPORALITY is evidently an organized structure. The three so-called “elements” of time, past, present, and future, should not be considered as a collection of “givens” for us to sum up—for example, as an infinite series of “nows” in which some are not yet and others are no longer—but rather as the structured moments of an original synthesis. Otherwise we will immediately meet with this paradox: the past is no longer; the future is not yet; as for the instantaneous present, everyone knows that this does not exist at all but is the limit of an infinite division, like a point without dimension. Thus the whole series is annihilated and doubly so since the future “now,” for example, is a nothingness qua future and will be realized in nothingness when it passes on to the state of a present “now.” The only possible method by which to study temporality is to approach it as a totality which dominates its secondary structures and which confers on them their meaning. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 408 (#qualifies, 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 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Treating time as a series of nows annihilates past, present, and future alike — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 408; Time is not identical to itself but differentiates and temporalizes itself — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 254; Time is only a formal determination displaceable by plasticity — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 105 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Treating time as a series of nows annihilates past, present, and future alike #qualifies (0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 408
• Time is not identical to itself but differentiates and temporalizes itself #complicates (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 254
• Motion alone makes the present dimension of universal time apprehensible #complicates (0.75)
• Time is only a formal determination displaceable by plasticity #qualifies (0.72) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 105