| Abstract | Paper -a:
This paper aims to explore memory as the inner place of the experience of the ineffable, of the encounter with the incomprehensible God, and of the discovery of the unfathomable deeps of the human being in 5th-century Christian thinking, in both Latin and Greek discourse. Augustine uses spatial and anthropomorphic metaphors to describe the memory, links the 'reading' of the memory to confession, and unveils the apophatic dimension of the recollection of the happy life. For Diadochus of Photike, the 'remembrance of God' becomes a practice of unceasing prayer aimed to nourish the fervour of the heart for God throughout the whole ascetical and mystical life.
Paper -b:
Scotus defines memory of the past as an imperfect intuition. While he deals with intuitive cognition and its difference from abstractive cognition throughout various texts he does not employ the term Presence (praesentia, as well praesente, praesentialiter ...) until the moment he introduces memory. Whatever reasons may be, the question remains could we search for answers within often interpreted and cited Augustine's texts and could Scotus's memory and remembering concepts help us indeed interpret and translate precisely certain statements about time from Augustin's Confessions to other languages (e.g. English or Croatian)?
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