{"id":1392,"date":"2016-04-15T21:05:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T02:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2016-04-15T21:06:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T02:06:08","slug":"recollection-and-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2016\/04\/15\/recollection-and-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Recollection and Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The faculty of <em>memory<\/em> is both the cause and the repository of memory and recollection. \u00a0Memory is an image which has been left behind by some sensory or mental impression that has actually been received. \u00a0In other words, it is the retention of sensation and thought. \u00a0Thus, on the one hand, the soul apprehends or senses sensible objects through the organs of sense, and a mental impression is formed; on the other hand, it apprehends intellectual objects through the mind and a conjecture is formed. \u00a0Hence, when it retains the form of things of which it has received impressions, or of things of which it has thought, then it is said to remember.&#8221; John of Damascus, <em>The Orthodox Faith<\/em>, Bk 2, Chap. 20., trans. Frederic H. Chase, Jr., <em>The Fathers of the Church<\/em> vol. 37 (New York 1958), p. 245. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/files\/2016\/04\/John_Damascus_arabic_icon.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1393\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1393 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/files\/2016\/04\/John_Damascus_arabic_icon-190x300.gif\" alt=\"John_Damascus_(arabic_icon)\" width=\"241\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this work John of Damascus (d. 749) included sections on philosophy. \u00a0While John sought to pass on the Eastern Christian theological tradition, his work also contained fascinating teaching concerning human nature. \u00a0 Here John explains the nature of memory and its role in human understanding. \u00a0He continued:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One must note that the apprehension of intellectual things comes only through learning, or the natural process of thinking. \u00a0It does not come from sensation, because sensible things are remembered in themselves, whereas intellectual things we do remember, provided we have learned something of them, but of their substance we have no memory.<\/p>\n<p>Recollection is the recovery of memory that has been lost by forgetting, and forgetting is the loss of memory. \u00a0When the imaginative faculty has apprehended material things by means of the senses, it communicates [the impression] to the thinking faculty, or reasoning faculty&#8211;for both of these are the same thing. \u00a0When this faculty has received the impression and formed a judgment of it, it passes it on to the faculty of memory.&#8221; Ibid.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The faculty of memory is both the cause and the repository of memory and recollection. \u00a0Memory is an image which has been left behind by some sensory or mental impression that has actually been received. \u00a0In other words, it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2016\/04\/15\/recollection-and-thought\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-of-damascus","category-memory","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions\/1395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}