ABSTRACT
In the third chapter, I analysed legal reflections and regulation of political and moral
temporality. Ideal ethical and political notions of time are internalized and codified
by the legal system but can never be fully accommodated by legality and are referred
back to the systems of morality and politics. The legal system symbolically selects
parts of society’s past and future and synthesizes them as present identity. It codifies
collective identity by symbolizing the transcendental ethical ideals of society and the
specific meaning of the past, present and future.
