Anamnesis as memory of intellegibles in Plotinus
Anamnesis is neither all-embracing nor trivial for Plotinus, but has a carefully delimited nature and function. He agrees with Plato that Soul has memory of Forms (while Nous, he holds, has intellection of them), and that these memories are recovered as soul approaches the intellegible realm. In Plo...
Author: | J. McCumber |
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Published: |
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1978
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Pages: | 160-167 |
Periodical: | Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie |
Number: | 60 |
Format: | Article |
Topic: | -
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Plotinus
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Status: | Needs Review |
Summary: | Anamnesis is neither all-embracing nor trivial for Plotinus, but has a carefully delimited nature and function. He agrees with Plato that Soul has memory of Forms (while Nous, he holds, has intellection of them), and that these memories are recovered as soul approaches the intellegible realm. In Plotinus' epistemology, moreover, the doctrine plays much the same rôle as in Plato's; its importance to his ethics is, however, highly restricted. |
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