Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 25-31) — What are the conditions of the operation of memory and imagination? (Guthrie)
G. What are the conditions of the operation of memory and imagination?
cosmic questions about memory depend on exact definition of what memory is.
memory inapplicable except to beings subject to limitations of time.
there is a timeless memory consisting of self-consciousness.
definition of memory depends on whether it belongs to the soul or organism.
the psychology of sensation.
in any case memory is peculiar to the soul and body
that the soul is incarnate is not the cause of her possessing memory.
memory belongs to the soul alone.
memory belongs both to the divine soul, and to that derived from the world-soul.
what the rational soul, if separated, would remember of life.
memory does not belong to appetite, because it may be reduced to sensation.
what appetite keeps is an affection, but not a memory.
memory does not belong to the faculty of sensation.
memory does not belong exclusively to the power of perception.
memory is not identical with feeling or reasoning.
memory belongs to imagination.
intellectual conceptions are not entirely preserved by imagination.
the two kinds of memory imply two kinds of imagination.
of the two imaginations one always predominates or overshadows the other.
partition of the fund of memory between the two souls.