APPROACH TO THE TOPIC OF THE VISION OF DARKNESS IN DE ANIMA II 7 FROM THE COMMENTS OF AVERROES
The problem of “scotopic vision”, or vision under conditionsof partial or total darkness, is one of the most enigmatic and least studied topics in Aristotelian psychology. In the article we present the exegesis of Averroes on this matter. We point out a difficulty that arises in the Great Commentary...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) |
| Repositorio: | Kriterion (Online) |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufmg.br:article/29715 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/kriterion/article/view/29715 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | teoría de la visión Averroes oscuridad filosofía medieval Vision theory Darkness Medieval philosophy |
| Sumario: | The problem of “scotopic vision”, or vision under conditionsof partial or total darkness, is one of the most enigmatic and least studied topics in Aristotelian psychology. In the article we present the exegesis of Averroes on this matter. We point out a difficulty that arises in the Great Commentary around some terms used to designate the obscurity in the whole of the theory. We propose as a solution a moderate interpretation of the matter, in accordance with the “principle of economy” and the traditional exegesis of the commentators. |
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