Introduction Life’s Timing Itself vs. The Human Esoteric Passion for Accomplishment

Abstract

The impetus of the logos of life never stops at its singular catch, at a concrete reach. In its fulgurating outburst radiating in all directions, it nevertheless tends toward a relatively stable post within the self-individualizing process. Those processes relate to an ontopoietic design whose functional and generic rays radiate in all directions within its circumference. The ontopoietic line of life’s unfolding gives life an appearance of temporal succession; life flows, we flow in ever new events; it flows inexorably onwards. Although its continuity is interrupted by innumerable events, constructive/destructive/arresting etc. events, we refer to their constructive succession along the ontopoietic course of individualizing beingness. We measure this succession as “temporality,” time in the “substantial,” abstract form given to it by our reflecting mind, that is, “chronos,” which flows ever onward, without stop, halt, repose, return, or retrieval.