By Roland J. Teske
Augustine validated that "the distension of the brain is an important of our perceiving temporal wholes". while, as Teske explains, this is unnatural to the rational soul and effects from unique sin.
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And who would deny that past things are not now? But there is, nonetheless, memory of past things in the mind. And who would deny that present time lacks extent, because it passes in a point? 132 What is going on here? Some read Augustine as if his final word on the present is that it has no extent. ”134 If Augustine’s final word were that the present moment is an unextended point, then there would simply be no extent of time to be measured. Despite his statement that the present has no extent and is a point, Augustine insists that we do measure times, and it is 36 Roland J.
Works as the only text in which he discusses the number of souls. Moreover, it lacks the full clarity that one would like. However, there is, I believe, further evidence which, if not conclusive, at least points in the same direction. Augustine held a very Platonic view of the human person in accord with which the real “I” was the incorporeal soul. Given such a view, the question of what makes souls to be individual souls becomes an implicit problem. Augustine once suggested that soul can only be divided by reason of different bodies.
The same thing holds for Paradoxes of Time in Saint Augustine 39 a longer action, of which the Psalm is a small part. The same thing holds for a man’s entire life, the parts of which are all the man’s actions. 138 Hence, Augustine resolves the second paradox and finds an extent of time in the mind’s distention. The key to the solution, if not all its elements, is found in the Plotinian definition of time as diavstasi~ zwh`~. This way of resolving the paradox may strike one as quite unsatisfactory.