St Augustine agrees with Plato that time begins with the creation.
Like Aristotle, St Augustine questions whether the past or future really exist.
Surely only the present actually exists and this is instantaneous, only measured by its passing.
Yet, like Aristotle, St Augustine says how can it be that past and future time do not exist.
He tried to answer the apparent contradiction by claiming that past time can only be thought of as past if one is thinking of it in the present. He identifies three times:-
The present of things past is memory, the present of things present is sight, and the present of things future is expectation.
time does not exist without an intelligent being who is able to think in the present about things past, present and future.
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