Eternal Now - Eternal Now

Japanese: 永遠の今 - えいえんのいま
Eternal Now - Eternal Now

...In this theory, both the future and the past are considered to be temporal states that are conceived incidentally to the present. This idea appears in a refined form in the West as Nietzsche's concept of the eternal now, ewiges Jetzt, but if we consider Nietzsche's concept in terms of the influence of Indian Buddhism, it is also characteristic of India.
[Genealogy of the theory of time]
From the insistence on the order of past, present, and future, the flow of time, or "flowing time," emerges.

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "eternal now" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…そこでは未来も過去も,ともに現在のために付随的に考えられた時間態であると考えられる。こうした発想は,洗練された形では西欧にもニーチェの〈永遠の今ewiges Jetzt〉というような概念として登場するが,ニーチェのそれもインド仏教の影響という点から考えられるとすれば,やはりインドに特徴的である。
【時間論の系譜】
 過去,現在,未来の順序に固執するところからは,時間の流れ,もしくは〈流れる時間〉が出現する。…

※「永遠の今」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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