Abstract

CORREA ROSELL, José Pablo. Reminiscing the Eternal: An Interpretative Proposal of Platonic Anamnesis. Interpret. Rev. herméneut [online]. 2025, vol.10, n.1, pp.95-120.  Epub June 20, 2025. ISSN 2448-864X.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.irh.2025.1/00s329x7w037.

This paper deals with the issue of anamnesis in Platonic philosophy, which begins with the proposal of all learning being “reminiscence” in works such as the Meno, Phaedrus, and Phaedo. To address this question, the necessary presuppositions inherent to any reading of anamnesis are considered, such as the nature of the forms and how they relate to our understanding. The interpretations by Eric D. Perl and Hans-Georg Gadamer are drawn upon to “situate” anamnesis within a hermeneutical reading of Plato. Anamnesis is then shown to be a hermeneutical description of learning as such, and a “method” for linking our understanding and intelligibly revealed being —a point clearly remarked upon by neither Perl nor Gadamer— which involves “remembering the eternal” and moving from the linguistically and conceptually indeterminate to the determinate. Finally, the paper suggests links between the proposed interpretation and arguments by Plato, Aristotle, and Gadamer.

Keywords : Plato; Anamnesis; Reminiscence; Hermeneutics; Theory of forms; Gadamer.

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