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.
GUTHRIE, K. S. Plotinus: Complete Works: In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods. [single Volume, Unabridged]. [s.l.] CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017.