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While in the modern age, we are familiar with the “scientific” and clock-like concept of time, in which time is the rectilinear, continuous, and consecutive progression of unified and identical instants of movement, Zhao emphasizes the importance to understand that, for living beings that are temporally constituted, time is the very medium and condition of existence, the ceaseless succession of durations where traces of the past, encounters of the present, and anticipation of the future, coalesce. Time makes the very existential meaning of living possible, and it is with living beings that time acquires any existential meaning at all.
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Zhao, G. (2020). Time and Existence. In: Subjectivity and Infinity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45590-3_2
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