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Aristotle and Plotinus on memory /
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 memor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Walter de Gruyter,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie ;
Bd. 94. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Six problems about memory
- Representational theories of memory in Aristotle and Plotinus
- Platonic preliminaries
- The wax block model for false opinion in the Theaetetus
- The five conditions of memory in the Phaedo
- The two definitions of memory in the Philebus
- Aristotle
- Memory
- The modesty of memory : the context of the enquiry into memory
- The objects of memory
- Memory and representation
- The perception of time
- The acquisition of memory : the comparison with using a seal to make an imprint
- The final definition : a solution to the present-past problem
- Some epistemological aspects of memory
- Recollection
- Interim conclusion : Aristotle on the six problems about memory
- Plotinus
- Against impressions : memory as an active capacity
- The context of Plotinus' theory of memory
- Explaining memory using the concept of the soul
- Defining memory
- What memory as a capacity can explain
- The subject of memory in life and after death
- The soul as the subject of memory and as the reason for its two objects
- Against the corporeality of memory
- Memory and the world soul and the thinking soul
- Memory and the modification of desire
- Explaining memory using representation
- Shared memories and their loss
- "The soul is and becomes what it remembers"
- Thinking without memory
- No memory of self
- Memory and the good
- Conclusion: Plotinus on the six problems about memory
- General conclusion: Aristotle and Plotinus on memory.