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Martin Heidegger – Being and Time – BT424

The principal thesis of the ordinary way of interpreting time – namely, that time is 'infinite' – makes manifest most impressively the way in which world-time and accordingly temporality in general have been levelled off and covered up by such an interpretation. It is held that time presents itself proximally as an uniterrupted sequence of “nows”. Every “now”, moreover, is already either a “just-now” or a “forthwith”. If in characterizing time we stick primarily and exclusively to such a sequence, then in principle neither beginning nor end can be found in it. Every last “now”, as “now”, is always already a “forthwith”that is no longer [ein Sofort-nicht-mehr]; thus it is time in the sense of the “no-longer-now” – in the sense of the past. Every first “now” is a “just-now” that is not yet [ein Soeben-noch-nicht]; thus it is time in the sense of the “not-yet-now”in the sense of the 'future'. Hence time is endless 'on both sides'. This thesis becomes possible only on the basis of an orientation towards a free-floating “in-itself”of a course of “nows” which is present-at-hand – an orientation in which the full phenomenon of the “now' has been covered up with regard to its datability, its worldhood, its spannedness, and its character of having a location of the same kind as Dasein's, so that it has dwindled to an unrecognizable fragment. If one directs one's glance towards Being-present-at-hand, and thus 'thinks' the sequence of “nows” through 'to the end', then an end can never be found. In this way of thinking time through to the end, one must always think more time; from this one infers that time is infinite.

(Translation by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson)

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