Time and Continuity in the history of philosophy

Abstract

This article deals with the continuity of time and generations, human activity in the socio-philosophical aspect. The concept of time, as the historical process, includes three life periods: past, present, and future. Accordingly, a person is aware of his time in the historical continuity, is embodied in the present, and aspires to the future. Therefore, the article examines the social nature of time, the essence of a person in time, within the framework of the possibility realized through his creation, effectiveness. This meaning is studied by A. Bergson as a social individual expressed through the knowledge of the inner world; by M. Heidegger as a person with a fateful, sublime being, as a historical person relying on the power of knowledge; by M. Foucault as a modern person with critical thinking, a skeptic. B. Russell suggests that when evaluating time, we evaluate a certain historical period through the events and opportunities of that time. This study is based on a comparative analysis of theoretical conclusions. The problem of studying the continuity of generations is always relevant. It can be seen in the fundamental works of foreign researchers K. Mannheim, H. Ortega- and — Gasset, G. Meidel, G. Marcuse, M. Mead, A. Toynbee, L. Feuer, T. Morgan and domestic researchers S.E. Nurmuratova, B.E. Kolumbaev, K.A. Medeuova, G.M. Smagulova are engaged in this problem.