Abstract
Twice mankind has experienced the disaster of a world war and man seems to have lost faith in reason. Moreover it looks as if he had lost not only his trust in reason but his faith in the world and in his companion human beings. He has lost a firm foundation which up to now had supported him and in which up to now he had believed; thus men is said to be thrown unprotectedly into this world and finds himself in a situation of anxiety. The “problem” of this paper is to take a fresh look at the human existence in order to recover peace of mind and to overcome anxiety. It is considered possible to attack this problem from three different sides namely, first from a moral viewpoint, second under its ontological aspect and thirdly under its time aspect. This paper is focused most of all on the third, namely the time aspect which was chosen as the main theme of the paper.
