Abstract

Memory with Plato is not just about what is talked about in philosophy but through which philosophy speaks. The main theme of the article is how the awakening of memory, erotic love and wonderment is linked platonically in an abrubtness, which combines all these three as the beginning of philosophy. To fall in love is connected with again remembering that which most stands out, shines out, and signifies recognition of beauty as unique and all that is real and, at the same time, as that according to and because of which anything exists at all. The link between being seized by love and renewed awakening of memory in oblivion, which amazes the normal and turns it on its head, establishes the basic ontological structure: if this is everything that is then all else is nothing, then outside this there is nothing else except nothing.