Concept
3 readings
Time
Concept · 3 readings
Augustine asks about created time, duration and a threefold present of memory, attention and expectation. Time as experienced should not be equated with reality as a whole.
Heidegger’s inquiry into existential temporality asks how a finite life takes up a past and projects possibilities. Compare the two inquiries without reading Heidegger’s as another account of time in Augustine’s sense.
Husserl distinguishes awareness of a just-past phase from recollecting an earlier event, and examines anticipation within present experience. These distinctions address a different question from Heidegger’s existential temporality.
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Husserl and Merleau-Ponty: experience, embodiment and a shared world · Lesson 3 of 9
How can a passing moment belong to a whole?
Husserl distinguishes retention of what has just passed from protention of what is coming, and both from recollection, which is another event. The lesson assesses what his description can establish about the unity of temporal experience.
Heidegger: being, a shared world and its limits · Lesson 7 of 12
Living from a past toward a future
Heidegger finds the unity of care in temporality and moves from inherited possibilities to a people’s destiny. What does that move leave ethically unjustified?
Guided course · Module 6 · Lesson 28
Time, will and the inward turn
Augustine examines a divided will and asks where the time we measure could be. Habit, memory, attention and expectation shape his answers; how far can an inward inquiry explain what it finds?
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Heidegger: being, a shared world and its limits
Begin with familiar encounters and follow Heidegger’s questions about being, a finite life, truth, art, dwelling and technology. Examine what the arguments explain, what they leave open and how they fare under political and ethical criticism.
Husserl and Merleau-Ponty: experience, embodiment and a shared world
Follow Husserl and Merleau-Ponty from the appearance of a familiar thing to time, bodily skill, expression and other people. Test what their descriptions establish, where their methods differ and what still needs evidence or an ethical argument.