nunc stans

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nunc (“now”) + stāns (“staying, remaining”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌnʌŋkˈstænz/, /ˌnʊŋkˈstænz/

Noun

nunc stans (uncountable)

  1. (Christianity, philosophy) Eternal existence as an attribute of God.
    • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan:
      But they will teach us that eternity is the standing still of the present time, a nunc-stans, as the schools call it; which neither they nor any else understand, no more than they would a hic-stans for an infinite greatness of place.
    • 2009, Patricia Bowen-Moore, Hannah Arendt’s Philosophy of Natality:
      In other words, at the point where the infinite past and the infinite future collide into the present of a nunc stans they spark into existence, as it were, the mental phenomenon of a timeless present which overcomes all ordinary time constructions.
    • 2005, Robert Spaemann, Happiness and Benevolence:
      In its radical transcendence of all finite states the subject enters into the space of a nunc stans, in the face of which all temporality becomes an unreal appearance.
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