Hypomnema

Hypomnemata were in ancient notebooks and notebooks. They served as reminders, but were also personal guides to life. In it you wore a quotes, parts of works, aphorisms and examples. But acts whose witness was to have been or about which one had read reports, thoughts and considerations that they had heard or had one even come to mind. The Hypomnema made ​​a tangible memory read, heard and imaginary things and offered them to the user as an accumulated treasure for rereading and later meditation. The French philosopher Michel Foucault points out, inter alia, in the context of Seneca exercises of self-knowledge: "In this time there was such a thing as a culture of personal writing: notes to read texts, discussions and reflections that you belong or where you has become involved; the keeping of ( the Greeks called Hypomnemata ) notebooks on important things that needed to be re-read from time to time to refresh the memory. "

Hypomnemata are not to be confused with diaries, as they were no reports that gave the clerk of itself, but a summary of records for reflection and self-constitution and self-reflection.

To their actual importance came the Hypomnemata in Late Antiquity. They were an indispensable instrument of the collection, organization, reflection and self-examination for the Stoics, but also for the early Christian church fathers. The font replaced his friend's views in the self-examination.