SOSC 1012 Study Guide - Absolute Time And Space, Howlong, Martin Heidegger
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If time finds its meaning in eternity, then it must be understood starting from eternity. Theology is concerned with human existence, as being before god. It is concerned with the temporal being of such existence in its relation to eternity. God himself needs no theology, his existence is not grounded through faith (einstein) space is nothing in itself, there is no absolute space. It exists merely by way of the bodies and energies contained in it (aristotle) time too is nothing. It persists merely as a consequence of the events taking place in it. There is no absolute time and no absolute simultaneity either. Time is that within which events take place. Since time itself is not movement, it must have something to do with movement. Measuring indicates the how-long and the when, the from-when-till-when. The way in which the stretch of this duration is divided up is arbitrary. Time is constituted as homogeneous, it is measurable.
