Beilage XLII: <The Contruction of Being as a Construction of Validity

(1932)

[Excerpts]

...My own being in its apodicticity of streaming now-life (in which I reflect on myself) intentionally implies my being as monad in the transcendental-monadic open- "infinite" all-monadic temporality and all monads that belong horizonally to this being. Each of these monads implicates essentially the same [things], and therein my being etc. Thus my transcendental beginning and end are inclosed in me as existents now in the mode of the present; the same monad is a unity constituted in the mode of monadic time modalities and so each, and each the others, and all implying with their being-born and dying...

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The past is constituted in the present; space, spatio-temporality is constituted primordially as constitutive formation in my streaming-"monadic" immanent being ("monad" before the world of monads, monad which still has no plural). The Others constituted for me on this ground as repetition of my psychophysical primordial being which is already constituted in me psychophysically. My past exists in itself and is not a piece of my present; my Other exists in itself and is not a piece of my ego.

One asks: But how can [a time] before my birth, thus before my monadic being, be constituted in me? - Is that a rational question? Is the object-temporal present- and past-being the same as the immanent? Does immanence have something that is temporally prior to it? Is it not an apperception, through which immanent temporality, stream-temporality etc. is apperceived as world-time, which is thus something new?

The primal monadic stream, the original stream, which is not yet a monad in monadic time, is not in world-time; in world-time mundanely temporalized monads exist. Also transcendental temporality is a formation constituted by the phenomenologizing I and We. What is the need to carry out transcendental interpretation, what does it mean to us to construe a transcendental supra-world lying at the foundation of the world in the natural sense? It lies at the foundation precisely in that it implicitly preceeds in construction of validity. The same means that the being of the monadic "world" is implicitly earlier, but that I am implicitly first, this now living streaming present (the original streaming).

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