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Aristotle and Plotinus on memory

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Aristotle and Plotinus on memory / by R.A.H. King.
Author:	King, R. A. H.
Published:	Berlin ;Walter de Gruyter, : c2009.,
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 266 p.) ;ill. :
Notes:	Revised version of the author's Habilitationsschrift--Universitat Munchen, 2004.
Subject:	Memory (Philosophy) -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110214635
ISBN:	9783110214635 (ebook)

Aristotle and Plotinus on memory
King, R. A. H.

Aristotle and Plotinus on memory [electronic resource]/by R.A.H. King. - Berlin ;Walter de Gruyter,c2009. - 1 online resource (xiv, 266 p.) ;ill. - Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie,Bd. 940344-8142 ;. - Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie ;Bd. 94..

Revised version of the author's Habilitationsschrift--Universitat Munchen, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-251) and indexes.

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.

ISBN: 9783110214635 (ebook)

LCCN: 2009036203Subjects--Personal Names:

555237
Aristotle.
Subjects--Topical Terms:

680083
Memory (Philosophy)

LC Class. No.: B491.M37 / K56 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 128/.3

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