Confessions, Book XI

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Selected reading: Aristotle on time, Augustine XI and Kant’s treatment of time.

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How to study this source

  • What does it mean to exist in time?

    coreAristotle on time, Augustine XI and Kant’s treatment of time

    Track the argument about time, memory and expectation without turning it into a measurement theory.

Ideas and questions

Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.

Read alongside, read against

  • Being and Time

    Martin Heidegger. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

  • The Concept of Time

    Martin Heidegger. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

  • Difference and Repetition

    Gilles Deleuze. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

  • Logic of Sense

    Gilles Deleuze. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

  • Process and Reality

    Alfred North Whitehead. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.