Metaphysics of presence

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Metaphysics of presence (

meaning, based on privileging presence over absence.[1][2]

Overview

In

Being as 'presence'; this means that they are understood with regard to a definite mode of time – the 'Present'".[3] Central to Heidegger's own philosophical project is the attempt to gain a more authentic understanding of time. Heidegger considers time to be the unity of three ecstases: the past, the present, and the future.[5]

Deconstructive thinkers, like

being-with
.

The presence to which Heidegger refers is both a presence as in a "now" and also a presence as in an eternal

finitude and the reception or rejection of the traditions of our time.[7][8]

In his short work Intuition of the Instant, Gaston Bachelard attempts to navigate beyond, or parallel to, the Western concept of 'time as duration' – as the imagined trajectorial space of movement. He distinguishes between two foundations of time: time viewed as a duration, and time viewed as an instant. Bachelard then follows this second phenomenon of time and concludes that time as a duration does not exist, but is created as a necessary mediation for increasingly complex beings to persist. The reality of time for existence, though, is in fact a reprisal of the instant, the gestation of all existence every instant, the eternal death that gives life.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ https://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/elljwp/derriduction2.htm, Presence and Absence
  2. ^ "Deconstruction | Definition, Philosophy, Theory, Examples, & Facts".
  3. ^ a b Being and Time (1962), §6, 25.
  4. ^ Physics, Book IV, Part 11.
  5. ^ Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time. §68, 401.
  6. ^ "Ousia and Grammē: Note on a Note from 'Being and Time,'" in Margins of Philosophy (1972), 29–67: 61
  7. ^ Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time. §65, 378.
  8. ^ Wheeler, Michael (2020), "Martin Heidegger", in Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2020 ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, retrieved 2022-03-23.
  9. OCLC 990264925
    .
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