Fiinţa şi timpul ei la Constantin Noica
Constantin Noica on Being and its time

Summary/Abstract: The metaphysical tradition conceived the entire existence as comprised by a single time and grounded on a homogeneous (and opaque, we might say) Being. However, in Noica’s view, since there are no such things as universally necessary structures, each formal articulation of an existential sphere has its own growth and rhythm. As time was regarded, from Aristotle onward, as “measure of movement”, the concrete and distinct “measure” of each configuration materializes, in Noica’s view, in a concrete time, i.e. in temporality. Having different internal ontic mechanisms, the spheres of Being develop their specific structures in a heterogeneous way, giving birth to a heterogeneous time. They are not placed in a universal single time which is given once and for all; instead, each of them has its own time, showing thus a certain organic feature.

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