A Phenomenological Examination of Temporality: Part 1

The Past

Matthew David
Embodying Philosophy
8 min readSep 8, 2023

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Man experiences time. We feel the past and the present, and we anticipate the future. On the surface, this seems like an evident thing. These constructs seem very real to us — we look at the past for pattern recognition, we go to therapy to heal us from past events.

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Matthew David
Embodying Philosophy

Philosopher. Writer. Coffee Addict. I write about Philosophy from the Ancient Greeks to Existentialism. https://medium.com/@matthew-david/about ←Learn more here