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1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages). |
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polychrome |
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Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie,
0344-8142 ;
Bd. 94
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Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie ; Bd. 94.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-251) and indexes. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Aristotle.
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Aristotle. |
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Plotinus.
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Plotinus. |
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Memory (Philosophy)
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Memory (Philosophy) |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: King, R.A.H. Aristotle and Plotinus on memory. Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2009 9783110214628 (DLC) 2009036203 (OCoLC)432428774 |
| ISBN |
9783110214635 (electronic book) |
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3110214636 (electronic book) |
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1282714678 |
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9781282714670 |
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3110214628 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9783110214628 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9783110214628 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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