Tesis
Tempo e eternidade: a leitura do livro XI das confissões de Agostinho por Paul Ricoeur
Fecha
2018-08-17Autor
Richter, Bruna Natalia
Institución
Resumen
In this study will discuss the relation between time and eternity in Book XI of
the Augustine’s Confessions , based on the reading of Paul Ricoeur in Time and
narrative . Time, for Augustine, is experienced internally from the movement of the soul
as a distension. The meditation about time comes in conjunction with a discussion of
eternity and the creation of the world. In turn, distension is understood by Paul Ricoeur
as the moment when we intend to accomplish something, such as reading or even
reciting a hymn, in which our intention expands on the words we intend to read or sing,
some of which of them are in our expectation (those we have not yet read), others in
attention, those we are reading, and still others in memory, when they have been read. It
is intended to show that temporal experience and narrative - of life or events - form a
circle that moves from the outer world into the human being through reflection; and so
through the narrative one can experience eternity. Moreover, it is shown that, from the
contrast between eternity and our temporal experience, language becomes a narrative.