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On Memory and Recollection — Aristotle

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On Memory and Recollection

Περὶ μνήμης καὶ ἀναμνήσεως

Busto de Aristóteles (Museo Nacional Romano, Palazzo Altemps)
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It defines memory as the having of an image taken as a copy of something past and places it in the sensitive part of the soul, bound up with the perception of time. It distinguishes recollection, the active search for a memory through associations of similarity, contrast and contiguity, which only human beings possess. It is the founding text of the theory of memory.

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Authorship note

A school treatise of the Aristotelian corpus, regarded as authentic. Like the other surviving treatises, it consists of Aristotle's own teaching materials rather than books meant for the public; the arrangement and titles largely derive from Andronicus of Rhodes's edition (first century BCE). It belongs to the so-called Parva naturalia (short treatises on natural history), a complement to On the Soul. Bekker 449b–453b.

Editions and translations

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English

  • The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation — Aristotle

    The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation

    Princeton University Press, 1984

    Translation: Varios (traducción de Oxford revisada, ed. Jonathan Barnes)

    ISBN 0691016518

    Edición en dos volúmenes (Bollingen Series LXXI.2); ISBN del registro de Open Library de la obra completa.

  • On the Soul. Parva Naturalia. On Breath — Aristotle

    On the Soul. Parva Naturalia. On Breath

    Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library, 288), 1936

    Translation: W. S. Hett

    ISBN 9780674993181

Griego antiguo

  • Aristotelis Opera, vol. I (ed. Immanuel Bekker)

    G. Reimer / Academia Regia Borussica, 1831

    Edición crítica de referencia; su paginación (Bekker) es el sistema universal de cita.

Español

  • Acerca de la generación y la corrupción. Tratados breves de historia natural — Aristotle

    Acerca de la generación y la corrupción. Tratados breves de historia natural

    Gredos (Biblioteca Clásica Gredos, 107), 1998

    Translation: Ernesto La Croce y Alberto Bernabé Pajares

    ISBN 9788424912420

    Primera edición: 1987. Los Parva naturalia, traducidos por Alberto Bernabé, ocupan la segunda parte del volumen.

Other works by Aristotle

Sources

  • Bekker, Immanuel (ed.). Aristotelis Opera, edidit Academia Regia Borussica. 5 vols. Berlín: G. Reimer, 1831–1870 (vols. I–II, texto griego, 1831).

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