Memoria, Contuitus, et Expectatio: Revisiting Augustine of Hippo

Since the Middle Ages, Augustine and the wealth of his writings have had an enormous impact on Western philosophical thinking. His approach to time and memory, which he sets out in his eleventh book of the Confessions, is one of the most important sources for research about the philosophy of time. A...

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Published in:Philosophy of music education review 2024-03, Vol.32 (1), p.34-45
Main Author: Berger, Martin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aesthetic Education
Aesthetics
Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
Beauty
Consciousness
Educational philosophy
Interdisciplinary Approach
Memory
Middle Ages
Music education
Music in education
Musicology
Ostracism
Philosophy
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Summary:Since the Middle Ages, Augustine and the wealth of his writings have had an enormous impact on Western philosophical thinking. His approach to time and memory, which he sets out in his eleventh book of the Confessions, is one of the most important sources for research about the philosophy of time. Augustine describes time as a permanent movement in which the future passes unceasingly through an unrelated present into the past. Only the very present moment exists, but this present moment is infinitely short. If the past is no more, the future is not yet, and the present is indivisibly brief, memoria becomes the determining factor of human consciousness. Augustine's theory of memory and time reveals an epistemological connection with the functioning of human consciousness. Since his understanding of time and memory is already of great relevance in many interdisciplinary approaches, it can also become important to the philosophy of music education. Revisiting Augustine's concept of memoria can give us new impetus on questions about aesthetic education, cancel culture, and utopian thinking.
ISSN:1063-5734
1543-3412
1543-3412
DOI:10.2979/pme.00005