Time and Motility

Kant's de-mythologization of Time is not a relocation of an at-large cosmic force into the individual soul, as is the case with some post-Copernican concepts of the Abrahamic deity. Rather, it redefines Time, separating it from its presumed functions of source of biological aging, image of Eternity, or container of mechanical events, as the Successive Form of individual Experience. The criticism here is that this redefinition retains a vestige of Mythology, insofar as he conceives Experience as given as subject to that Form. The thesis here is, instead, that Time is created by the Temporalization that is an organic process in an entity possessing Motility, i. e. the capacity to move itself, a process that provides the cohesion without which the accomplishment of the simplest project would be impossible. The pattern of the resultant Temporality is Cumulative, from which traditional models such as Successiveness and Duration, Linear or Circular, can be derived, thereby similarly demonstrating that traditional concepts of Time are grounded in this one.