Augustine on the Existence of the Past and the Future
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David Anzalone
Abstract
In the eleventh book of the Confessiones Augustine puts forward several considerations about the nature of time. The received view is that he held that only the present exists, while the past and the future do not exist. This received view has recently been attacked by Paul Helm and Katherin Rogers, who have offered alternative interpretations according to which Augustine held that the present has no privileged ontological status, and that past, present and future all equally exist. The aim of this paper is to defend the received view vis-à-vis these attacks. I argue that the received view fits best Augustine’s view of God’s eternity and relation to time and should therefore be preferred.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelseiten
- Articles
- Pleasure, Judgment and the Function of the Painter-Scribe Analogy
- “This” and “Such” in the Receptacle Passage of Plato’s Timaeus
- Substancehood and Subjecthood in Z-H
- Augustine on the Existence of the Past and the Future
- Epicureans and the City’s Laws
- Spinoza’s Infinite Shortcut to the Contingent Appearance of Things
- Culture and the Unity of Kant’s Critique of Judgment
- Book Reviews
- Helmig, Christoph (ed.), World Soul – Anima Mundi. On the Origins and Fortunes of a Fundamental Idea. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2020, 364 pp.
- Owen Ware, Kant’s Justification of Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2021, xii+176 pp.
