Duration

Key question

What does it mean to exist in time?

Check your understanding

Find an example, an application and a limit. Explain the concept without using its name, then compare your explanation with a primary source.

Claims to examine

• Lived temporal experience raises questions that a mere ordering of physical events may not answer.

  Editorial claim · contestedExamine the source →

Follow a learning route

• What does it mean to exist in time?

  Read metaphysical, phenomenological and process accounts of temporality with careful textual reconstruction.

Reading connections

• Physics, Book IV

  Aristotle

• Confessions, Book XI

  Augustine

• Critique of Pure Reason

  Immanuel Kant

• Time and Free Will

  Henri Bergson

• Being and Time

  Martin Heidegger

• The Experience and Perception of Time

  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy editors

• The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness

  Edmund Husserl