Memory and Remembrance between Henri Bergson and Paul Ricoeur: A Conceptual Approach
Abstract
This research deals with the concept of memory according to Henri Bergson and Paul Ricoeur, where memory plays one of the most important roles in the formation of our perceptions, and this position is recognized by all philosophers, that the sensations presented to us by our senses have no meaning in our mind except when our memories present to our imagination what they explain it, and this applies to the words that make up our language; Therefore, we do not exist towards ourselves except to the extent that we remember from our past that we lived, and we feel the continuity that connects and unites it with our present, and from that importance was the purpose of the research in the approach between the position of both the philosophers on memory and remembrance, as both of them took a basic goal which is to purify the importance of memory and its real role in Human life in its various psychological, social and historical aspects, with their different orientations. Bergsonian memory is a subjective psychological memory liberated from the domination and control of the machine and philosophical and psychological materialist doctrines, and the Ricorian memory is historical with a reconciliatory nature between personal self-memory and collective memory, stemming from a historical perspective.