In my presentation I would like to put forth a comparative reading of
St. Maximus's original contributions to the philosophy of time and
Husserl's lectures On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time. The
comparison seems to me to suggest itself as both thinkers prescribed
temporality to the very nature of the human being (to the logos
of the human nature for Maximus; to consciousness for Husserl) and both
traced the origin of time at the paradox that overcomes time while
remaining the source of time (Husserl's Absolute Flow, Maximus's
ever-moving repose). My task, therefore, will be to spell out the points
of convergence between the two thinkers and the systems their represent
(theology and phenomenology) and draw the implications that such
convergence might have for each of them as well as for our understanding
of being as time, especially in light of certain eschatological
considerations.
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