Augustine on Time: Why the Bishop of Hippo Asked What He Could Not Find
In Book XI of the Confessions, Augustine asked what time actually is and admitted he could not say. The answer he hammered out — that time is the soul stretched between memory, attention, and expectation — has shaped Western philosophy for 1,500 years.
April 27, 2026
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