Time and Nothingness

The Necessity of Understanding Time Communally

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“What is time? Provided that no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to an inquirer, I do not know.”¹

Saint Augustine’s dilemma is the essential dilemma of every form of thought that has yet to fully attain to the consciousness of communion. Communion remains the immediate fact of every being, yet it is obscured by the false abstractions of thought trapped within the logic of self-relation. Time, as being, is communion, but communion remains unthought, that is, merely immediate until the ontological fact of communion becomes not only the first principle of philosophical inquiry but its universal truth. Only when the communal nature of thought and being becomes “for itself” can one discuss either in truth.