On Two Kinds of Temporal Reduction: A Temporal Analysis of the Evil
On Two Kinds of Temporal Reduction: A Temporal Analysis of the Evil

Summary/Abstract: The author aims to formulate some observations regarding the connection between evil, time, and the human being. The discourse focusses especially on the ways in which the evil appears and manifests itself in human life-world. There are a lot of prejudices regarding the evil, many of them being philosophically constituted. But all prejudices, both the philosophical ones and the common ones, come from a certain tradition and talk about an “existential” support for each bad deed. The evil does not intervene in the world by a divine or natural decision or cause; it appears only in the core of human life. But this idea is a pre-judgment found both in public consciousness and in philosophy (in theology, certain sciences, or even in ideology). This pre-judgment crosses all these contexts due to its obvious existential support, in other words, because it is lived by a person in flesh and blood (leibhaftig). The author will attempt to point out its meontological meanings, by a temporal analysis, in fact, by two kinds of temporal reduction.

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