Paradoxes of Time in Saint Augustine (The Aquinas Lecture in Philosophy, #60)

Paradoxes of time in Saint Augustine / by Roland J. Teske. p. cm.-(The Aquinas lecture ; 1996) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-87462-163-1 (pbk.) 1. Time-History. 2. Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo-Contributions in doctrine of time. I. Title. II. Series. Paradoxes of Time in Saint Augustine......Page 2 Paradoxes of Time in Saint Augustine by Roland J. Teske, S.J.......Page 4 © page......Page 5 Prefatory......Page 6 Dedication......Page 10 Paradoxes of Time in Saint Augustine......Page 12 I. The First Paradox......Page 18 1. The Skeptical Question......Page 20 2. The Concept of Divine Eternity and its Source......Page 27 1. The Search for an Extent of Time......Page 34 2. Time as a Distention of the Mind......Page 40 3. The Solution of the Paradox......Page 43 III. The Third Paradox......Page 50 1. The Objection to Augustine’s Account......Page 51 2. Some Solutions to the Problem......Page 53 3. A Plotinian Solution to the Problem......Page 57 4. The Universal Soul in Augustine......Page 61 IV. Conclusion......Page 68 Notes......Page 72 The Aquinas Lectures......Page 109 About the Aquinas Lecture Series......Page 113 Augustine established that "the distension of the mind is a necessary condition of our perceiving temporal wholes". At the same time, as Teske explains, this condition is unnatural to the rational soul and results from original sin. 'Under the auspices of the Wisconsin-Alpha chapter of Phi Sigma Tau.'