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11 - Memory, Eternity, and Time

from Part II - Main Themes and Topics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2020

By
Lenka Karfíková
Edited by
Tarmo Toom
Tarmo Toom
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Summary

Just as his narration in the “Confessions” has no other source than the bottomless and treacherous memory, Augustine has no other way of dealing with time than human speech. Both memory and speech attempt to concentrate time into a kind of unity, which is enabled by the extentionless unity of the eternity where the temporal processes are included in an atemporal way.

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The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's 'Confessions' , pp. 175 - 190
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Flasch, K. Was ist Zeit? Augustinus von Hippo, Das XI. Buch der Confessiones: historisch-philosophische Studie: Text-Übersetzung-Kommentar. Klostermann Rote Reihe 13. Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 1993.Google Scholar
Hoffmann, P. “Temps et étérnité dans le livre XI des Confessions: Augustin, Plotin, Porphyre et saint Paul.” Revue des Études Augustiniennes 63 (2017), 31–79.Google Scholar
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Mesch, W. Reflektierte Gegenwart. Eine Studie über Zeit und Ewigkeit bei Platon, Aristoteles, Plotin und Augustinus. Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 2003.Google Scholar
Mourant, J. A. Saint Augustine on Memory. Saint Augustine Lecture Series. Villanova: Villanova University Press, 1980.Google Scholar
O’Daly, G. Augustine’s Philosophy of Mind. London: Duckworth, 1987.Google Scholar
Ricoeur, P. Temps et récit / T. 1, L’intrigue et le récit historique. Éditions Points. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1983.Google Scholar
Teske, R. J. “Augustine’s Philosophy of Memory.” The Cambridge Companion to Augustine, ed. Stump, E.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 148–158.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Teske, R. J. Paradoxes of Time in Saint Augustine. Aquinas Lecture 1996. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 1998.Google Scholar
Von Herrmann, F.-W. Augustinus und die phänomenologische Frage nach der Zeit. Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 1992 (English translation by F. Van Fleteren and J. Hackett [Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2008]).Google Scholar

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