II—Lost Memory and Contested Recollection: A Response to Professor Adamson

Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 93 (1):185-202 (2019)
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A debate between Proclus and Damascius over whether intellect ‘remembers’ the forms in contemplating them is explained by Professor Adamson as a disagreement over the nature of memory looking back to Plato and Aristotle. But I argue that it is rather symptomatic of a disagreement stretching back through Plotinus to Middle Platonism over the nature of the intellect. This gives the debate its urgency; and it coheres better with the fact that, Plato and Aristotle aside, there is vanishingly little evidence in ancient philosophy for a thematized interest in memory.

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Proclus: An Introduction.Radek Chlup - 2012 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
Plotinus’ Unaffectable Soul.Christopher Noble - 2016 - Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 51:231-281.

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