This text from 1957 offers a critical reflection on the nature of time, rejecting the notion that all events are stored within a uniform, total temporal sequence. The author argues that such a view is merely an external perspective on the resultant of various and diverse temporalities inherent in different events and occurrences. According to the author, real time exists exclusively where the present is understood as a genuine and vivid tension between what has passed and what is yet to come. It is within this present moment that the past and the future are drawn into current experience, thereby acquiring their identity as past and future. The work thus emphasizes the phenomenological and existential dimensions of human temporality, where time is perceived not as an abstract linear axis, but as an internal structure of happening that constitutes itself through an active relationship with the present. This brief yet intellectually dense record provides a profound critique of the mechanical understanding of time and opens up space for understanding temporality as a dynamic process of human existence.
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◆ philosophical diary – record, Czech, origin: 24. 11. 1957
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- [Příležitostné poznámky, 1957]
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Nemůžeme uznat, že vše je uloženo nějak v celkové časové posloupnosti. To je jen pohled na výslednici vší mnohotvárné časovosti dějů a událostí. Skutečný čas je pouze tam, kde je přítomnost opravdovým napětím mezi „minulým“ a „budoucím“. Tam je však „minulost“ i „budoucnost“ teprve vtažena do přítomnosti a tím učiněna minulostí a budoucností.
(kart. lístek A6 s datem 24. 11. 57)
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