Time is constituted by the For-itself’s nothingness rather than inhering in objects

Evidence

Temporality. Subjective process whereby the For-itself continuously lives its project of nihilating the In-itself. Through temporality the For-itself sets up its own measure for the duration and self-identity of things. Time is not in things but flows over them. The For-itself as what it has been (Past) is a flight (Present) toward what it projects to be (Future). — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1524

Categorization

• DEFINE: Full statement of Sartre’s subjective temporality and its three ekstases (past-present-future).
• XREF: connects to: Temporality is the necessary horizon for the for-itself’s transcendence; The present is a perpetual flight from being rather than a moment — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 445; Temporality exists only as the intra-structure of the For-itself, which temporalizes itself. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 471 (+14 more)

Broader Connections

• The present as pure being is an infinitesimal instant that reduces to nothingness #expands (0.90)
• Time is not the container of becoming but is itself the becoming #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 257
• Nothingness is expelled from being yet gives the world its outlines #corroborates (0.82)
• Neither ancient nor modern notions of time adequately capture time’s twofold negation #expands (0.80) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 118
• Time is not identical to itself but differentiates and temporalizes itself #qualifies (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 254