Time's Struggle with Space: Kierkegaard's Understanding of Temporality
In the provocative eleventh book of his Confessions, Augustine mused:What then is time? Who can find a quick and easy answer to that question? Whoever in his mind can grasp the subject well enough to be able to make a statement on it? Yet in ordinary conversation we use the word ‘time’ more often an...
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1973
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Harvard theological review
Year: 1973, Volume: 66, Issue: 3, Pages: 311-329 |
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Summary: | In the provocative eleventh book of his Confessions, Augustine mused:What then is time? Who can find a quick and easy answer to that question? Whoever in his mind can grasp the subject well enough to be able to make a statement on it? Yet in ordinary conversation we use the word ‘time’ more often and more familiarly than any other. And certainly we understand what we mean by it, just as we must understand what others mean by it when we hear the word from them. What then is time? I know what it is if no one asks me what it is; but if I want to explain it to someone who has asked me, I find that I do not know. |
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ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816000001905 |