# Recollection

- Id: `recollection`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/recollection/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `83fb59f0861657164e410dee8812766d29d8321ef61899dfb30abef3aa95637c`

## Summary

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

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:troward.law_and_word:II",
    "passage:moses.numbers:10",
    "passage:jesus.numbers:10"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "réminiscence",
    "reminiscence",
    "recollection",
    "remembered before",
    "ἀναμνη"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 96,
    "passages": 537,
    "thinkers": 26,
    "traditions": 11
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "political-thought",
        "name": "Political thought and democracy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/political-thought-and-democracy/"
    },
    {
        "id": "greek-roman-traditions",
        "name": "Greek and Roman traditions",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/greek-and-roman-traditions/"
    },
    {
        "id": "buddhism",
        "name": "Buddhism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/buddhism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "stoicism",
        "name": "Stoicism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/stoicism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    },
    {
        "id": "psychology",
        "name": "Psychology and psychoanalysis",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/psychology-and-psychoanalysis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "skepticism",
        "name": "Skepticism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/skepticism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "judaism",
        "name": "Judaism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/judaism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "platonism",
        "name": "Socratic and Platonic thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/socratic-and-platonic-thought/"
    },
    {
        "id": "new-thought",
        "name": "New Thought and mental science",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/new-thought-and-mental-science/"
    },
    {
        "id": "christianity",
        "name": "Christianity",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/christianity/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
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        "title": "Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/abraham-lincoln/lincoln-authored-papers/"
    },
    {
        "id": "abraham_lincoln.papers_context",
        "title": "Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents",
        "author": "Correspondents and archival record",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/abraham-lincoln-archive-correspondents/incoming-mail-and-context/"
    },
    {
        "id": "aristotle.eudemian_ethics",
        "title": "Eudemian Ethics",
        "author": "Aristotle",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/aristotle/eudemian-ethics/"
    },
    {
        "id": "aristotle.metaphysics",
        "title": "Metaphysics",
        "author": "Aristotle",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/aristotle/metaphysics/"
    },
    {
        "id": "aristotle.nicomachean_ethics",
        "title": "Nicomachean Ethics",
        "author": "Aristotle",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/aristotle/nicomachean-ethics/"
    },
    {
        "id": "aristotle.rhetoric",
        "title": "Rhetoric",
        "author": "Aristotle",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/aristotle/rhetoric/"
    },
    {
        "id": "buddha.anguttara_nikaya",
        "title": "Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical Discourses",
        "author": "Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/anguttara-nikaya/"
    },
    {
        "id": "buddha.digha_nikaya",
        "title": "Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long Discourses",
        "author": "Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/digha-nikaya/"
    },
    {
        "id": "buddha.majjhima_nikaya",
        "title": "Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length Discourses",
        "author": "Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/majjhima-nikaya/"
    },
    {
        "id": "chrysippus.svf_2",
        "title": "SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and Physics",
        "author": "Chrysippus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/chrysippus/svf-2/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.academica",
        "title": "Academica",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/academica/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.brutus",
        "title": "Brutus, or On Eminent Orators",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/brutus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.catilinarians",
        "title": "Catilinarian Orations",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/catilinarians/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.letters_to_atticus",
        "title": "Letters to Atticus",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/letters-to-atticus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.letters_to_friends",
        "title": "Letters to Friends",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/letters-to-friends/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_divinatione",
        "title": "On Divination",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-divinatione/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_officiis",
        "title": "On Duties",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-officiis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_amicitia",
        "title": "On Friendship",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-amicitia/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_senectute",
        "title": "On Old Age",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-senectute/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.philippics",
        "title": "Philippics",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/philippics/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.tusculan_disputations",
        "title": "Tusculan Disputations",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/tusculan-disputations/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cleanthes.pearson_fragments",
        "title": "Pearson: Cleanthes fragments",
        "author": "Cleanthes",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cleanthes/pearson-fragments/"
    },
    {
        "id": "diogenes.lucian_sale",
        "title": "Philosophies for Sale, Sections 7-11, by Lucian of Samosata",
        "author": "Lucian of Samosata",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/lucian/lucian-sale/"
    },
    {
        "id": "elizabeth_carter.talbot_letters",
        "title": "Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot",
        "author": "Elizabeth Carter",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/elizabeth-carter/talbot-letters/"
    },
    {
        "id": "elizabeth_carter.montagu_letters",
        "title": "Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Montagu",
        "author": "Elizabeth Carter",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/elizabeth-carter/montagu-letters/"
    },
    {
        "id": "elizabeth_carter.vesey_letters",
        "title": "Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey",
        "author": "Elizabeth Carter",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/elizabeth-carter/vesey-letters/"
    },
    {
        "id": "elizabeth_carter.bible_notes",
        "title": "Elizabeth Carter’s Notes on the Bible",
        "author": "Elizabeth Carter",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/elizabeth-carter/bible-notes/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epictetus.discourses",
        "title": "Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by Arrian",
        "author": "Epictetus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epictetus/discourses/"
    },
    {
        "id": "locke.essay_human_understanding",
        "title": "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding",
        "author": "John Locke",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/john-locke/essay-human-understanding/"
    },
    {
        "id": "jung.collected_papers_analytical_psychology",
        "title": "Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology",
        "author": "Carl Gustav Jung",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/jung/collected-papers-analytical-psychology/"
    },
    {
        "id": "jung.psychology_of_the_unconscious",
        "title": "Psychology of the Unconscious: Transformations and Symbols of the Libido",
        "author": "Carl Gustav Jung",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/jung/psychology-of-the-unconscious/"
    },
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        "id": "jung.theory_of_psychoanalysis",
        "title": "The Theory of Psychoanalysis",
        "author": "Carl Gustav Jung",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/jung/theory-of-psychoanalysis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "marcus_aurelius.meditations",
        "title": "Meditations",
        "author": "Marcus Aurelius",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/marcus-aurelius/meditations/"
    },
    {
        "id": "montaigne.essais",
        "title": "The Essays",
        "author": "Michel de Montaigne",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/montaigne/essais/"
    },
    {
        "id": "moses.numbers",
        "title": "Numbers",
        "author": "Moses",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/moses/numbers/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.apology",
        "title": "Apology of Socrates",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/apology/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.critias",
        "title": "Critias",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/critias/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.epinomis",
        "title": "Epinomis, an Ancient Appendix to the Laws",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/epinomis/"
    },
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        "id": "plato.epistles",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/epistles/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.euthydemus",
        "title": "Euthydemus",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/euthydemus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.gorgias",
        "title": "Gorgias",
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        "id": "plato.hippias_minor",
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    },
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    },
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    },
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        "title": "Lysis",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/lysis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.menexenus",
        "title": "Menexenus",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/menexenus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.meno",
        "title": "Meno",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/meno/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.phaedo",
        "title": "Phaedo",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/phaedo/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.phaedrus",
        "title": "Phaedrus",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/phaedrus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.philebus",
        "title": "Philebus",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/philebus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.protagoras",
        "title": "Protagoras",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/protagoras/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.republic",
        "title": "Republic",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/republic/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.sophist",
        "title": "Sophist",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/sophist/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.statesman",
        "title": "Statesman",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/statesman/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.symposium",
        "title": "Symposium",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/symposium/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.theaetetus",
        "title": "Theaetetus",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/theaetetus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.timaeus",
        "title": "Timaeus",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/timaeus/"
    },
    {
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        "title": "Alexander",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/alexander/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.cato_younger",
        "title": "Cato the Younger",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/cato-younger/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.on_curiosity",
        "title": "On Curiosity",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/on-curiosity/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.tranquillity_of_mind",
        "title": "On Tranquillity of Mind, Plutarch",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/tranquillity-of-mind/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.control_of_anger",
        "title": "On the Control of Anger",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/control-of-anger/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.table_talk",
        "title": "Table Talk",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/table-talk/"
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        "id": "seneca.de_clementia",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-clementia/"
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    {
        "id": "seneca.epistulae_morales",
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        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/moral-letters-to-lucilius/"
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    {
        "id": "seneca.naturales_quaestiones",
        "title": "Natural Questions",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/naturales-quaestiones/"
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        "id": "sextus_empiricus.outlines",
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        "id": "socrates.plato_apology",
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        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-apology/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_gorgias",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Gorgias",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-gorgias/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_laches",
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        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-laches/"
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    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_meno",
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        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-meno/"
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    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_phaedo",
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        "author": "Plato",
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        "id": "socrates.plato_phaedrus",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-phaedrus/"
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        "id": "socrates.plato_protagoras",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-protagoras/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_republic",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Republic",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-republic/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_symposium",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Symposium",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-symposium/"
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    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_theaetetus",
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        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-theaetetus/"
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    {
        "id": "socrates.xenophon_memorabilia",
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        "author": "Xenophon",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/xenophon/xenophon-memorabilia/"
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        "id": "spinoza.emendation_en",
        "title": "Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect, English Manifestation",
        "author": "Baruch Spinoza",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/spinoza/emendation-en/"
    },
    {
        "id": "spinoza.letters_en",
        "title": "Spinoza’s Correspondence: Spinoza-Authored Letters, English Manifestation",
        "author": "Baruch Spinoza",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/spinoza/letters-en/"
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    {
        "id": "spinoza.emendation_fr",
        "title": "Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect, Émile Saisset’s French Translation",
        "author": "Baruch Spinoza",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/spinoza/emendation-fr/"
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    },
    {
        "id": "troward.law_and_word",
        "title": "The Law and the Word",
        "author": "Thomas Troward",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/thomas-troward/law-and-word/"
    },
    {
        "id": "zeno.svf_1",
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        "author": "Zeno of Citium",
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        "id": "elizabeth_carter.edited_talbot",
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    },
    {
        "id": "bible.old_testament",
        "title": "The Bible: Old Testament",
        "author": "Biblical traditions",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/biblical-traditions/the-bible-old-testament/"
    }
]
```