existential time

is the time that belongs to either authentic or also to inauthentic human existence.

But this is not existential time. Existential time is the time that belongs to existence, and that means for both Kierkegaard and Heidegger human existence. For Heidegger, human existence has two possible fundamental ways of constituting itself: it can constitute itself either inauthentically or authentically. This ' 'either or'' is not Kierkegaard's either or which is strictly exclusive: either he passed the exam or he did not. One possibility excludes the other. There are two expressions in Latin for either or. The exclusive either or is aut aut. But the Latin has a non-exclusive expression for either or: vel vel. An example of this kind of either or might be: either I can take a walk or I can go to the movies. If I have enough time, I could do both. The two do not necessarily exclude each other.

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existential time