“Sacred” and “Profane” Time of Human Being: Historical and Philosophical Analysis

Aim. To conduct a historical and philosophical analysis of the main conceptual ideas about the problem of time and reveal the specific features of its sacred and profane manifestations as the key principles of self-actualization of human existence as the Other.

Methodology. This study was carried out using the methods of historical-philosophical, dialectical, and hermeneutic analysis, which made it possible to comprehend the non-classical concept of time as a fundamental form of a bifurcated human perception of the world.

Results. The analysis made it possible to substantiate the problem of time as an ambivalent form of borderline perception and experience of reality by a person through events disintegrated and fragmented in it, in which its ambiguous essence, open to the sacred and profane dimension, is imprinted and formed in a contradictory way. The sacred explication of time presupposes a non-identical dimension of a person, in his extremely hypostatized and impersonal form of events, and the profane explication of time presupposes his primordial nature, identified in an animated form, closed on itself.

Research implications. This study sheds light on the conceptual rethinking of the phenomenon of time as a universal mirror of human existence, in which its inferior value is acquired in an authentic way.

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