Aristotle and Plotinus on Memory
, by King, Richard A. H.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9783110214628 | 3110214628
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 12/31/2009
Two treatises on memory which have come down to us from antiquity are Aristotle's On memory and recollectionand 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 memoryas 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.