Aristotle, Augustine and Ricœur’s Aporetics of Temporality in Context

Autor: Jonathan Martineau
Jazyk: English<br />French
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies, Vol 11, Iss 2, Pp 53-68 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2156-7808
DOI: 10.5195/errs.2020.507
Popis: Questioning Ricœur’s positioning of Aristotle and Augustine as the founders of the two mutually exclusive conceptions of time that dichotomize the Western tradition, this article suggests that what Ricœur describes as the aporetics of temporality is a product of the modern social time regime. Extracting Aristotle and Augustine’s conceptions of time from this modern problem reveals the Aristotelian so-called “naturalist” view of time as one that rather unifies humans and their world through symbolic mediation, while Augustine’s alleged “subjective” conception of time is read rather as expressing the subordination of time to divine transcendence.
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