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Considerations on the idea of time in St. Augustine, Hume and Kant

Time is discussed by trying to understand it from those points of reference that take it as a subjective elaboration, in other words, as not having any reality outside the individual. In the history of Philosophy it is understood that this line of reflection started with the philosophy of St. Augustine and reached its zenith in modern thought, above all in Hume and Kant. Time is a construction or an elaboration of the spirit, without any existence outside it (St. Augustine), or it is a regular empirical understanding of the causal relationships of the before and the after (Hume), or it is the pure intuition of the spirit (Kant). With this analysis it is intended to provide evidence of a classical way of conceiving of time as an elaboration of the individual (subjective).

Time perception; history; philosophy


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