Single Idea 22888

[catalogued under 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / c. Idealist time]

Full Idea

Augustine answers that for us to be aware of time it must exist only in the mind, …and the difference between past and future is just the difference between memory and anticipation.

Gist of Idea

To be aware of time it can only exist in the mind, as memory or anticipation

Source

report of Augustine (Confessions [c.398]) by Adrian Bardon - Brief History of the Philosophy of Time 1 'Augustine's'

Book Reference

Bardon,Adrian: 'Brief History of the Philosophy of Time' [OUP 2013], p.25


A Reaction

This is an extreme idealist view. Are we to say that the past consists only of what can be remembered, and the future only of what is anticipated? Absurd anti-realism, in my view. Where do his concepts come from, asks Le Poidevin.