The concept of time is nothing but one of the most
important conceptualisations of humans for humans. In this sense, that of which
we have to think is rather the relationship between the humanness of human
beings and the existence through which we become capable of experiencing who we
are in time. We have to deal with the time, if we merely stare at the concept
of it as a period for living. No. It is much more than that.
The concept of time, for me, basically refers to three
different meanings which are, respectively, the physical time, the individual
time, and the social time. The first meaning of the concept of time is
obviously based on the movement of the objects in accordance with each other.
The second type of time, in my opinion, is the time in which the experience of
the subject becomes involved. In this context, this is the time of the
consciousness; however, this kind of time is merely for the ‘pre-ontological’
consciousness, with the notion of Heidegger, and pure consciousness in Hegelian
system of philosophy. Social time is, however, rooted in the
self-consciousness, since the subject notices that the consciousness is able to
take itself as its object. In this sense, the structure of social time refers
to relationship of the self-consciousness to other self-consciousnesses. The
concept of experience does, thus, shape both individual and social times, and
also, two different types of subject.
The time is the experience of the subject; hence,
it is one of the main components, or, better, basic possibilities, of the
subject. It is none other than the ‘openness’ of the subject.
