Open AccessTime and Its Philosophical Implications
Author(s) -
Stanisław Ziemiański
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
forum philosophicum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2353-7043
pISSN - 1426-1898
DOI - 10.35765/forphil.2008.1301.05
Subject(s) - situated , existentialism , epistemology , representation (politics) , value (mathematics) , philosophy , philosophical methodology , aesthetics , sociology , law , computer science , political science , artificial intelligence , machine learning , politics
The conception of time, presented by St. Augustine, unites within itself the physical-philosophical views of Aristotle, and its own psychological view concerning the lived experience of the flow of sensory impressions from the past towards the future. H. Majkrzak (1999) underlines, in Augustine, the existential moment of time. The time of a human life is limited: it is situated within borders stretching from the day of birth to the day of death. This faithful and precise representation of the Augustinian conception of time, nevertheless brings the reader up against a problem: What value does it have today?