Aristotle and Plotinus on memory
By: by Richard A.H. King.
Series: Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie -- Bd. 94
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783110214628
Subjects: Aristotle; Plotinus; Memory (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Problems about memory; title: Representational theories of memory in Aristotle and Plotinus; title: Platonic preliminaries; title: The wax block model for false opinion in the Theaetetus; title: The five conditions of memory in the Phaedo; title: The two definitions of memory in the Philebus; title: Aristotle; title: Memory; title: The modesty of memory : the context of the enquiry into memory; title: The objects of memory; title: Memory and representation; title: The perception of time; title: The acquisition of memory : the comparison with using a seal to make an imprint; title: The final definition : a solution to the present-past problem; title: Some epistemological aspects of memory; title: Recollection; title: Interim conclusion : Aristotle on the six problems about memory; title: Plotinus; title: Against impressions : memory as an active capacity; title: The context of Plotinus theory of memory; title: Explaining memory using the concept of the soul; title: Defining memory; title: What memory as a capacity can explain; title: The subject of memory in life and after death; title: The soul as the subject of memory and as the reason for its two objects; title: Against the corporeality of memory; title: Memory and the world soul and the thinking soul; title: Memory and the modification of desire; title: Explaining memory using representation; title: Representation in perceptual memory; title: Representation in the memory of thought; title: Shared memories and their loss; title: Shade and soul : shared memories and an ethical separation; title: The good of forgetting : shared memories, their effects and their loss; title: The soul is and becomes what it remembers; title: Thinking without memory; title: No memory of self; title: Memory and the good; title: Conclusion: Plotinus on the six problems about memory; title: General conclusion: Aristotle and Plotinus on memory.