Journal de Etica y Cine

Volumen 07 | Nº 3

NOVEMBER 2017

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

NOTAS

Etica y Cine (Ethics & Films) is a Peer Reviewed Quarterly Journal Edited by
Department of Psychoanalysis and Department of Deontology, School of Psychology, National University of Cordoba, Argentina
Department of Psychology, Ethics and Human Rights, School of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
With the collaboration of:
Center for Medical Ethics (CME), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
Under the auspicious of:
The International Network of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics.

The Memory and its connection to the past

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