Aristotle and Plotinus on Memory (eBook)
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2009
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280 Seiten
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.KG (Verlag)
978-3-11-021463-5 (ISBN)
280 Seiten
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.KG (Verlag)
978-3-11-021463-5 (ISBN)
Two treatises on memory which have come down to us from antiquity are Aristotle’s On memory and recollection and Plotinus’ On perception and memory (IV 6); the latter also wrote at length about memory in his Problems connected with the soul (IV 3-4, esp. 3.25-4.6). Both authors treat memory as a “modest” faculty: they assume the existence of a persistent subject to whom memory belongs; and basic cognitive capacities are assumed on which memory depends. In particular, both theories use “phantasia” (representation) to explain memory.
Richard A. H. King, University of Glasgow, UK.
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Richard A. H. King, University of Glasgow, UK.