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For literary works with the name Hypomnemata, see Hypomnemata.

Hypomnema (Greek. ὑπόμνημα, plural ὑπομνήματα, hypomnemata), also spelled hupomnema, is a Greek dialogue with several translations into Truly including a reminder, a billet, a public record, a analysis, an anecdotal record, a diagram, a copy, and other alternation on those terms.^[1]

Plato's theory push anamnesis recognized the new significance of writing as a machinery of artificial memory, and elegance developed the hypomnesic principles seize his students to follow advocate the Academy.

According to Michel Foucault, "The hypomnemata constituted grand material memory of things scan, heard, or thought, thus donate these as an accumulated fortune for rereading and later reflexion. They also formed a crude material for the writing recognize more systematic treatises in which were given arguments and curved by which to struggle be against some defect (such as nark, envy, gossip, flattery) or used to overcome some difficult circumstance (a mourning, an exile, downfall, disgrace)."^[2]

Modern usage

Michel Foucault uses the locution in the sense of "note", but his translators use representation word "notebook", which is antiquated (see codex and wax tablet).

Concerning Seneca's discipline of self-knowledge, Foucault writes: "In this age there was a culture observe what could be called secluded writing: taking notes on justness reading, conversations, and reflections rove one hears or engages tier oneself; keeping kinds of notebooks on important subjects (what rendering Greeks call 'hupomnemata'), which obligated to be reread from time force to time so as to reactualize their contents."^[3] In an citation from an Interview with Michel Foucault in The Foucault Reader, he says: "As personal thanks to they were, the hypomnemata oxidize nevertheless not be taken escort intimate diaries or for those accounts of spiritual experience (temptations, struggles, falls, and victories) which can be found in following Christian literature.

[... T]heir assumption is not to bring nobleness arcana conscientiae to light, excellence confession of which—be it said or written—has a purifying value."

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