Is the past fixed?
On the axis: Relation to the past · what took place
What took place can no longer not have taken place; but its meaning depends on what comes after. If the past is still open to interpretation, is loving or refusing it still the same question?
Justification
The for-itself is stretched toward the future: it defines itself by the project, that toward which it throws itself forward, and is never fixed in its past, which it must always take up and re-signify. To live is to pro-ject oneself; the present itself has meaning only in relation to what one makes oneself be. The orientation is therefore resolutely that of the project, not of memory nor of the bare instant.
Being and Nothingness, Part 2, ch. 2 (temporality, the ecstasis of the future)
The philosophers positioned on the axis “Relation to the past”, over time. Hover a dot to read its name.
This problem's anchors
leads to: Temporal orientation