Philosopher of the Restless Heart
Augustine of Hippo
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A North African bishop whose Confessions tells of his restless youth and conversion, and whose thought on time, will and grace shaped Western Christianity.
Key work: Confessions (c. 400)
“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know: if I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
A restless heart is looking for something it has not yet named.
Evil is a lack of good, not a thing of its own.
Time lives in the mind as memory, attention and expectation.
Read more: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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What Is Time?The Stolen Pears
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