Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

286 AUGUSTINE I want to know the essence and nature of time, whereby we measure the movement of bodies and say, for instance, t ...

CONFESSIONS(BOOKXI) 287 moving and sometimes stationary, we measure not only its motion but also its static periods in terms of ...

288 AUGUSTINE voice is past and is a voice no longer. Before it sounded forth it was a future thing, so it could not be measured ...

CONFESSIONS(BOOKXI) 289 phenomena leave in you, which abides after they have passed by: that is what I measure as a present real ...

290 AUGUSTINE St. Augustine,City of God,Books XI, 26 and XII, 1–9 from Fathers of the Church; Writings of Saint Augustine; Saint ...

CITY OFGOD(BOOKXII) 291 BOOKXII CHAPTER 1 In the previous book we saw something of the beginning of the two cities, so far as an ...

292 AUGUSTINE creation that, mutable as it is, it can attain beatitude by adhering to the immutable and supreme Good, which is G ...

CITY OFGOD(BOOKXII) 293 power to harm, but merely an inclination to oppose Him. In any case, God is immutable and completely inv ...

294 AUGUSTINE St. Matthew,from the Lindisfarne Gospels, before A.D. 698. (The British Library/SuperStock, Inc.) corner of the co ...

CITY OFGOD(BOOKXII) 295 We should pay no attention to those who praise fire for its light but condemn its heat—on the principle ...

296 AUGUSTINE first bad will bad? Now, the fact is that there was no first bad will that was made bad by any other bad will—it w ...

CITY OFGOD(BOOKXII) 297 For, suppose we say that the man himself made his will evil. Very well, but what was the man himself bef ...

298 AUGUSTINE The will does not fall “into sin”; it falls “sinfully.” Defects are not mere relations to natures that are evil; t ...

CITY OFGOD(BOOKXII) 299 Now, it is true that their good will was not only the cause of their turning and adhering to Him, who is ...

300 Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius was the son of a Roman high-government official. Possibly educated in Athens or Alexandri ...

INTRODUCTION 301 explains that God is completely outside time. This means that God “sees all things in his eternal present as yo ...

302 BOETHIUS THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY (in part) BOOKV CHAPTER6: PHILOSOPHYSOLVES THEPROBLEM OFPROVIDENCE ANDFREEWILL BYDIST ...

THECONSOLATION OFPHILOSOPHY 303 lives in time lives in the present, proceeding from past to future, and nothing is so constitute ...

304 BOETHIUS you happen to see simultaneously a man walking on the street and the sun shining in the sky, even though you see bo ...

THECONSOLATION OFPHILOSOPHY 305 foreknowing this or that in succession, but in a single instant, without being changed itself, a ...