Time and memory in Aristotle
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The aim of this article is to discuss the relationship between the notions of time and memory in two of Aristotle’s writings: Physics IV and On Memory and Reminiscence. In Physics IV Aristotle defines Time, in relation to the change and movement of the sublunary world, as the number of movement and change. On the other hand, in On Memory and Reminiscence he offers a phenomenological analysis which does not require a numerical conception of Time, but a recognition that what is present, as an image, is part of a past experience characterized by non-being. In this way, the numerical interpretation of Time is the necessary method of memory recovery, but memory implies an experience of Time, from which memory is constituted as negativity.
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