Because it does not exist: the long future is only the long expectao of the future. Nor the last time is long because it does not exist, but past long the other thing is not seno the long souvenir of the past … Keep up on the field with thought-provoking pieces from ICR. my attention is present and for it passes what he was future to become past. (AUGUSTIN, 1987, Confessions XI p.228-229) In such a way, it is observed that the time for Augustin is psychological, that is, seems to be an impression of the mind spirit. A time the time is psychological, the philosopher submits the existence of three essential reasons for the time this aspect.
Such reasons make with that Augustin divides the time in ' ' present souvenir of the passed things, present vision of the things gifts and present hope of the things futuras' '. (AUGUSTIN, 1987, Confessions XI p.222). Effect, he seems that for Augustin the time that exists is the gift, of the past one only has souvenir and of the future alone he has hope of some day to exist, but he does not exist, since if with respect to the measurement it is a certain distenso and in relation to the impression or perception of the man in the mind he is psychological, the Creator of the time not he is inserted in it. We now pass to speak of the Creator, who stops Saint Augustin de Hipona is God. This philosopher argues in the book XXI de Confisses that God created everything, also the time of the man, but he cannot is inside of it, inasmuch as the man sees the past, the future and the gift separately, are as facts not gifts or not, but God does not see the time in such a way, due sees everything of a time alone, living in perpetual ' ' today. Augustin considers that the fact of God sees the future and last as a difficult mystery to understand, therefore questions Augustin the question that the maniqueus made on what the Creator, being perpetual, made before the creation.
