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Philosophical concept

Recollection

Recollection is the Platonic proposal that learning reawakens knowledge the soul already possessed.

Works
96
Passages
537
Thinkers
26
Traditions
11

Understand uses of the concept

Recollection is the Platonic proposal that learning reawakens knowledge the soul already possessed.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 537 passages across 96 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Eudemian Ethics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: réminiscence, reminiscence, recollection, remembered before, ἀναμνη

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Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 0 passages
  2. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  3. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  4. MetaphysicsAristotle · 0 passages
  5. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  7. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  8. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  9. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  10. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  11. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  12. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  13. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  14. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  15. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  16. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  17. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  18. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
  19. On Old AgeCicero · 0 passages
  20. PhilippicsCicero · 0 passages
  21. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  22. Pearson: Cleanthes fragmentsCleanthes · 0 passages
  23. Philosophies for Sale, Sections 7-11, by Lucian of SamosataLucian of Samosata · 0 passages
  24. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Catherine TalbotElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  25. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth MontaguElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  26. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth VeseyElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  27. Elizabeth Carter’s Notes on the BibleElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  28. Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by ArrianEpictetus · 0 passages
  29. An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke · 0 passages
  30. Collected Papers on Analytical PsychologyCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages