ΕΡΧΕΘΑΙ ΩΡΑ ΚΑΙ ΝΥΝ ΕΣΤΙΝ

"in the Spiritual Day of the Presence"

Abstract

The Author rereads the Hegelian reflection about time in the light of the verse from the Fourth Gospel, “a time is coming and has now come”, comparing it with the di­verse interpretations of the relationship between the to­tality of the temporal horizon (hóra) and the “moment” (nýn) of its “revelation”, occurring over the course of his­tory – from Augustine to Nietzsche and Borges, proceed­ing to Hölderlin and Dostoyevsky. The outcome is a real true passage from the primacy of the hóra to that of the nýn, no longer seen as a “moment” within the hóra, but as an in-stant suspended between the real movement of time and the possible tranquillity of the Nothingness of time. This ‘in-stant’, and this alone, which opens up the mystery of the Possible, today merits the Hegelian defi­nition of the “spiritual day of the presence”.