eternal now
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eternal now
noun Eternal Now
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The condition in which all reality is experienced in the present, with the past contained only in memory and the future only in anticipation or speculation.
For the bliss of the animals lies in this, that, on their lower level, they shadow the bliss of those—few at any moment on the earth—who do not "look before and after, and pine for what is not," but live in the holy carelessness of the eternal now.
Similar: atemporality, eternity
- The nature of the existence of God which is outside of time; the nature of the existence of a soul in a supposed timeless afterlife. [Heidegger] is trying to avoid any conception of time that begins with a distinction between time and eternity. On this understanding of time, classically expressed in Augustine's Confessions, temporality is derived from a higher non-temporal state of eternity, which is co-extensive with the infinit
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