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This new Technology was as disruptive to Ancient Greek Society as the introduction of the Computer into private life today. The hypomnemata served the growing cultivated public in many ways - as account books, public registers, guides for conduct, and individual notebooks serving as memoranda. In '' literature. [T heir objective is not to bring the arcana conscientiae to light, the confession of which -- be it oral or written -- has a purifying value."'' Plato's theory of Anamnesis recognized the new status of Writing as a device of Artificial Memory , and he developed the hypomnesic principles for his students to follow in the Acadamy . The hypomnemata constituted a material Memory of things read, heard, or thought, thus offering these as an accumulated treasure for rereading and later Meditation . They also formed a raw material for the writing of more systematic treatises in which were given arguments and means by which to struggle against some defect (such as anger, envy, gossip, flattery) or to overcome some difficult circumstance (a mourning, an exile, downfall, disgrace). |
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