Heidegger saw this in a metaphysical kind of sense. He thought this is indicative of the idea of coming into being. The past is the potential which gives birth to the present. Dr Kelly Ross thinks of this more in the sense that the past has gone from a mode of possibility into necessity.
But I myself have not yet had time to delve into these interesting approaches. I am just mentioning them for points of possible exploration.
The thing here that is curious is that the past has gone from potential to no longer existing at all. Instead of it going from potential into actuality, it passed from potential into actuality into nothingness.
I think that this indicates what Kant was saying about time-it is an unconditioned reality. When pure reason ventures into that area it produces contradictions. The past is the most necessary. It can no long be changed. But it also is the most non existent.
But I myself have not yet had time to delve into these interesting approaches. I am just mentioning them for points of possible exploration.
The thing here that is curious is that the past has gone from potential to no longer existing at all. Instead of it going from potential into actuality, it passed from potential into actuality into nothingness.
I think that this indicates what Kant was saying about time-it is an unconditioned reality. When pure reason ventures into that area it produces contradictions. The past is the most necessary. It can no long be changed. But it also is the most non existent.
