Saint Augustine was a well-respected and historically impactful philosopher. His intelligence, diverse upbringing and worldly experience all combined to shape his philosophical ideas. One of his most recognized philosophical teachings was his thoughts regarding time. There are countless philosophers who taught their beliefs of time and the reality of existence. Many other philosophers developed complex presentations, but Saint Augustine did the complete opposite. Saint Augustine proposed a simple straightforward notion that only the present moment is real.
One of three children of Saint Monica, Augustine was born in 354. Augustine grew up in Northern Africa, which today would be considered Algeria. At a young age Augustine was …show more content…
What is time? I agree with Saint Augustine in that if no-one asks me to explain what time is, I know what it is. We have clocks that tell us what time of the day it is, but this is just a human invent of seconds minutes and hours. If clocks or time was never invented would time itself still exist? I believe that our internal clocks are a good indication of this. Often times I find myself waking up just before my alarm is to go off. Although I set a time for an event, my body continues wake up moments before I would be abruptly woken. While many can blame this to coincidence or routine, I believe that it is much deeper than that. We are present in this very moment and this is where we consciously …show more content…
Often times you hear the saying “the future is not set in stone” or “don't count your chickens before they hatch.” Proverbs such as these may have been directly in relation with Saint Augustine’s teachings. The future is never promise, anything can happen at any time. The future hasn't occurred yet so understandably it does not yet exist. One example of this could be when you are making plans everyone is on board. When it is a few weeks before the event some people may have backed out, and then the day of only a small portion of the group is present. Although a large group had all agreed on a single idea, the future had not come yet and in the present/real time the group is
One of three children of Saint Monica, Augustine was born in 354. Augustine grew up in Northern Africa, which today would be considered Algeria. At a young age Augustine was …show more content…
What is time? I agree with Saint Augustine in that if no-one asks me to explain what time is, I know what it is. We have clocks that tell us what time of the day it is, but this is just a human invent of seconds minutes and hours. If clocks or time was never invented would time itself still exist? I believe that our internal clocks are a good indication of this. Often times I find myself waking up just before my alarm is to go off. Although I set a time for an event, my body continues wake up moments before I would be abruptly woken. While many can blame this to coincidence or routine, I believe that it is much deeper than that. We are present in this very moment and this is where we consciously …show more content…
Often times you hear the saying “the future is not set in stone” or “don't count your chickens before they hatch.” Proverbs such as these may have been directly in relation with Saint Augustine’s teachings. The future is never promise, anything can happen at any time. The future hasn't occurred yet so understandably it does not yet exist. One example of this could be when you are making plans everyone is on board. When it is a few weeks before the event some people may have backed out, and then the day of only a small portion of the group is present. Although a large group had all agreed on a single idea, the future had not come yet and in the present/real time the group is