Trascender la memoria

Abstract

This essay gives an account of how St. Augustine, especially in book X of his text Confessions, not only achieves magisterial phenomenological descriptions of human memory. The saint of Hipona transcends and goes beyond, to make see that the reality of man is gathered in memory and this is the seat of the person. In this sense, it is not a mere faculty anymore. The very being of man as a creature is memory, with all its temporal dynamism. And in the unfathomable depth of memory, the voice of the Creator, the call of truth, the original source of the eternal being becomes clear. Question that contributes to the reflection that today is made about memory.