La diástasis del tiempo real, entre el mito, la praxis y el éskhaton

Abstract

Unlike physical time, which is what docks measure, living time is multidimensional because it concerns the very being of the living. For the living human being, time is existing; his experiencing time is his experiencing the active rhythm of his existing. This experiencing varies as it is either individual or collective, subjectal or socially committed in a praxis that produces «a world.» There are several modes, levels or rhythms of time (e. g., existential, junctural, terminal), as there are several —personally lived— experiences in time, such as that of anticipation, rush, changing (developmentally or abruptly) or aging. Mythical time is not an historical time, yet it is not unreal: explains the origins of a people and their institutions or a regular phenomenon. Lived real time is the active dynamics of joining a past that remains as the effect of «past» (but operative) causes, unfolding toward a future that begins to appear before our eyes —sometimes against our will—, with a present that is tension and sudden movement for a project that is still unreal. Existing is an organic and structured totality (Gestalt), which will terminate because of its very nature as an articulated process.