Time and History

Dialectics of Time in Saint Augustine

  • Danilo Marcondes Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro - PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Keywords: Augustin, Time, History, Dialectics

Abstract

Saint Augustin is the author of an original and very influential discussion on time. In his Confessions he puts forward the famous aporia about time according to which we know what time is, but when we are asked we do not know how to defne it. In his Te City of God, our main focus here, we fnd a historical conception of time in a dialectical perspective that strongly influenced modern thought.

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Doutor em Filosofa pela University of St Andrews (U.ST.A.), Grã-Bretanha. Professor Titular do Departamento de Filosofa da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Professor Associado do Departamento de Filosofa da Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

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Published
06-08-2019
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MARCONDES, D. Time and History. Cadernos de Psicanálise | CPRJ, v. 41, n. 40, p. 11-19, 6 ago. 2019.