I and Temporality
Scientific perspective:
• Time is a certain slice of space; a succession of moments; a linear perspective of time
Phenomenological perspective:
• The present includes a slice of the past. Still part of the present is a certain future because
in a way we are looking forward towards achieving something that starts from a decision
in the past. Man reassumes the past in the view of a certain future.
• A decision always carries something one did in the past in view of a certain future. Hence
the meaning of the past can be transformed affecting somehow the way the future will take
its course as decided upon by the self. Man, therefore, is not determined by nature (he
determines himself). Depending on how we act now and depending on how we take a look
at the past we achieve a certain future. Life moves on not instantaneously but in a spiral
way.
Conscience
– a particular action done in the past does not conform to a particular vision of how one
ought to live
Remorse
Life moves in a spiral way – the present always involves the past and the future (retention –
protension); we make sense of the past causing us to want to live differently in the future
• It doesn’t mean that we are subjected to the scientific perception of time; we are growing
older
Man is a being-unto-death
• Man in some way is a master of time, he can look forward to an open future but on the
other hand, man as a body is mastered by time because he deteriorates, grows old and
eventually dies
• Time for a man is a tension between hope for a future but at the same time a death to
come and end that future. Man is the only being who knows death unlike animals which
know no anxiety. Death is universal in man because everyone will die. Death is a tragedy
because it will end one’s moving forward to the future
Temporality is a phenomenological experience
The very idea of fulfillment only makes sense within the background of death.
Scientific perspective:
• Time is a certain slice of space; a succession of moments; a linear perspective of time
Phenomenological perspective:
• The present includes a slice of the past. Still part of the present is a certain future because
in a way we are looking forward towards achieving something that starts from a decision
in the past. Man reassumes the past in the view of a certain future.
• A decision always carries something one did in the past in view of a certain future. Hence
the meaning of the past can be transformed affecting somehow the way the future will take
its course as decided upon by the self. Man, therefore, is not determined by nature (he
determines himself). Depending on how we act now and depending on how we take a look
at the past we achieve a certain future. Life moves on not instantaneously but in a spiral
way.
Conscience
– a particular action done in the past does not conform to a particular vision of how one
ought to live
Remorse
Life moves in a spiral way – the present always involves the past and the future (retention –
protension); we make sense of the past causing us to want to live differently in the future
• It doesn’t mean that we are subjected to the scientific perception of time; we are growing
older
Man is a being-unto-death
• Man in some way is a master of time, he can look forward to an open future but on the
other hand, man as a body is mastered by time because he deteriorates, grows old and
eventually dies
• Time for a man is a tension between hope for a future but at the same time a death to
come and end that future. Man is the only being who knows death unlike animals which
know no anxiety. Death is universal in man because everyone will die. Death is a tragedy
because it will end one’s moving forward to the future
Temporality is a phenomenological experience
The very idea of fulfillment only makes sense within the background of death.
