protension

“In a way, we are faced here with something like yet another reworking of the Husserlian analysis of temporality, and of the tension retention-protension that characterizes it: with the significant difference that time is no longer so much constituted for and by a consciousness, or even by an ex-sistence, as it is temporalized from out of the twofold horizon of the event of being.”

Archive 2007-05-01

“_Dynamical_ Phenomena (protension, movement, succession) -- events transpiring in _time_, having beginning, succession, and end, which present themselves to us as the expression of _power_, and throw back their distinctive characteristics on their _dynamic_ source.”

Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles

“The miscalled eternity and infinity of nature is an _indefinite_ extension and protension in time and space, and, as _quantitative_, must necessarily be limited and measurable, therefore _finite_.”

Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles