Aristotle, Augustine and Ricœur’s Aporetics of Temporality in Context
Questioning Ricœur’s positioning of Aristotle and Augustine as the founders of the two mutually exclusive conceptions of time that dichotomize the Western tradition, this article suggests that what Ricœur describes as the aporetics of temporality is a product of the modern social time regime. Extrac...
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| description | Questioning Ricœur’s positioning of Aristotle and Augustine as the founders of the two mutually exclusive conceptions of time that dichotomize the Western tradition, this article suggests that what Ricœur describes as the aporetics of temporality is a product of the modern social time regime. Extracting Aristotle and Augustine’s conceptions of time from this modern problem reveals the Aristotelian so-called “naturalist” view of time as one that rather unifies humans and their world through symbolic mediation, while Augustine’s alleged “subjective” conception of time is read rather as expressing the subordination of time to divine transcendence. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c620d202fc8a4e9da2bb4c3470ac0c2c2025-08-19T22:26:34ZengUniversity Library System, University of PittsburghÉtudes Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies2156-78082021-03-01112536810.5195/errs.2020.507255Aristotle, Augustine and Ricœur’s Aporetics of Temporality in ContextJonathan Martineau0Liberal Arts College, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.Questioning Ricœur’s positioning of Aristotle and Augustine as the founders of the two mutually exclusive conceptions of time that dichotomize the Western tradition, this article suggests that what Ricœur describes as the aporetics of temporality is a product of the modern social time regime. Extracting Aristotle and Augustine’s conceptions of time from this modern problem reveals the Aristotelian so-called “naturalist” view of time as one that rather unifies humans and their world through symbolic mediation, while Augustine’s alleged “subjective” conception of time is read rather as expressing the subordination of time to divine transcendence.http://ricoeur.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/ricoeur/article/view/507aristotleaugustinetimericœurtime and narrative |
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| title | Aristotle, Augustine and Ricœur’s Aporetics of Temporality in Context |
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