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Aristotle and Plotinus on Memory (Hardcover)
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Aristotle and Plotinus on Memory (Hardcover)
Series: Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie
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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). In both authors memory is treated as a 'modest'
faculty: both authors 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. Aristotle takes representations
to be changes in concrete living things which arise from actual
perception. To be connected to the original perception the
representation has to be taken as a (kind of) copy of the original
experience - this is the way Aristotle defines memory at the end of
his investigation. Plotinus does not define memory: he is concerned
with the question of what remembers. This is of course the soul,
which goes through different stages of incarnation and
disincarnation. Since the disembodied soul can remember, so he does
not have Aristotle's resources for explaining the continued
presence of representations as changes in the concrete thing.
Instead, he thinks that when acquiring a memory we acquire a
capacity in respect of the object of the memory, namely to make it
present at a later time.
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