The Memory and its connection to the past

Marina Trakas

Profesora de Filosofía – Academia de Caen (Francia) Doctora en Filosofia y Ciencias Cognitivas – Macquarie University (Australia) & Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Francia)

Abstract

Taking as starting point Akira Kurosawa’s film, I analyse the tension between the reconstructive nature of memory and the
possibility of knowing truths from the past, and I explore if the tendency to align our personal memories to our present interests
necessarily leads to an sceptic and relativistic vision of the knowledge from the past.

Keywords: reconstructive memory, past, truth, truthfulness, self-deception, selfishness.

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: Rashômon. La memoria y su conexión con el pasado


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