Movements, Memory, and Mixture: Aristotle, Confusion, and the Historicity of Memory

Sutton, John

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-33408-6_8

Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind

2020

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-33408-6_8

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Movements, Memory, and Mixture: Aristotle, Confusion, and the Historicity of Memory

John Sutton

Abstract: This essay homes in on two related aspects of Aristotle's account of memory, one often noted but sometimes discounted, the other of more speculative import. These features may not be the most central, either for Aristotle or for his interpreters, but they matter in their own right, and raise questions of independent historical and conceptual interest.

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“…If this is the meaning of pathos at DM 1.450b1.45 On physical constraints on the process of memory, seeKing (2004), 99-102 andSutton (2020).46 DM 1.450b19-20. 47 DM 1.450b20-451a2.…”

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“To See and Hear That Which is Not Present”: Aristotle on the Objects of Memory

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In this paper, we show that there are some strong philosophical and exegetical reasons to argue that according to the view developed in the first chapter of Aristotle’s De Memoria, the objects of memory are non-present, or absent, things and events rather than our past acts of awareness of them. We argue that on Aristotle’s account, the objects of memory can be particulars or universals, perceptibles or intelligibles, and that all these kinds of things are past in the same sense, namely, in the sense of previously having been present to the perceiver or knower. Aristotle’s claim that we remember that we previously learned or saw something is the description of how, rather than what, we remember. Keywords: Aristotle, memory, past, pathos, present

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“…If this is the meaning of pathos at DM 1.450b1.45 On physical constraints on the process of memory, seeKing (2004), 99-102 andSutton (2020).46 DM 1.450b19-20. 47 DM 1.450b20-451a2.…”

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“To See and Hear That Which is Not Present”: Aristotle on the Objects of Memory

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2022

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Re-remembering

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Situated Affects and Place Memory

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2024

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Traces of many past events are often layered or superposed, in brain, body, and world alike. This often poses challenges for individuals and groups, both in accessing specific past events and in regulating or managing coexisting emotions or attitudes. We sometimes struggle, for example, to find appropriate modes of engagement with places with complex and difficult pasts. More generally, there can appear to be a tension between what we know about the highly constructive nature of remembering, whether it is drawing on neural or worldly resources or both, and the ways that we need and use memory to make claims on the past, and to maintain some appropriate causal connections to past events. I assess the current state of work on situated affect and distributed memory, and the recent criticisms of the ‘dogma of harmony’ in these fields. I then deploy these frameworks to examine some affective dimensions of place memory, sketching a strongly distributed conception of places as sometimes partly constituting the processes and activities of feeling and remembering. These approaches also offer useful perspectives on the problems of how to engage – politically and aesthetically – with difficult pasts and historically burdened heritage. In assessing artistic interventions in troubled places, we can seek responsibly to do justice to the past while fully embracing the dynamic and contested constructedness of our present emotions, memories, and activities.

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Movements, Memory, and Mixture: Aristotle, Confusion, and the Historicity of Memory

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“To See and Hear That Which is Not Present”: Aristotle on the Objects of Memory

“To See and Hear That Which is Not Present”: Aristotle on the Objects of Memory

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