CAS PH 100 Lecture 15: Part 1: Introduction to St. Augustine

• School: Boston University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: CAS PH 100
• Professor: David Roochnik

Document Summary

Lecture 15 part 1: we look at a new brilliant thinker, st. augustine, who wrote around 400 bc and was a religious man, he deals with the issue of being in time and being temporal. He establishes the difference between immortality and being eternal: for example, the greek god zeus was born and grew up and became mature. He went through the flow of time and has a past and a present and future. Then, his aging process stopped, allowing him to be at his physical peak: augusti(cid:374)e"s god, ho(cid:449)e(cid:448)er, is eter(cid:374)al. I(cid:374) order to (cid:272)reate the u(cid:374)i(cid:448)erse, god (cid:449)ould"(cid:448)e had to enter the universe, which is in time. And this is impossible because god does not exist in time: but the eter(cid:374)al a(cid:374)d te(cid:373)poral are (cid:862)(cid:374)ot (cid:272)o(cid:373)para(cid:271)le(cid:863) (cid:894)1(cid:1011)(cid:1012)(cid:895), they cannot be compared because the temporal implies continuous time flow through the past, present and future.