Il problema del tempo come quaestio in Agostino. Dai dialoghi di Cassiciaco alle Confessiones

Abstract

Agostino, starting from the confutation of the Aristotelian time’s theory and replying to the question if the time corresponds to the motion (motus) or to the duration (mora), tries to resolve the aporia that is not only related to the analysis of the measure of the time but also to the “being” or to the “not being” of the time itself. Therefore, man’s inability to establish and to explain the “being” of the time does not preclude the opportunity to deal with it. Honouring the time is actually more familiar than any other matter in conversation (in loquendo). Agostino’s reflection does not demand to create a phenomenology of the time but it exhorts man to consider the loqui, unable to reveal a strong connection between res and signa, as the only need of a reditus ad interiorem partem, the only thing able to consulere veritatem. [edited by Author]