2015年10月13日 · The work of the eye has a powerful influence across culture and philosophy—not least in Goethe's approach to understanding. Aligned to aesthetic appreciation, seeing has the potential to offer an authorial gift of ‘other-ness’ when brought to bear on evaluative relationships.

Many ancient physicians and philosophers believed in the idea of the active eye. Plato, for instance, wrote in the fourth century B. C. that light emanated from the eye, seizing objects with its rays. More metaphorically, Aristotle's disciple, Theophrastus, wrote that …

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This essay examines the theories of vision in Democritus, Plato and Aristotle. These philosophers offered different accounts of how a person (or the eye) can see things in the visible world. Each philosopher's theory of vision reflects his

symbolic thinking, the sun, the pre-eminent " eye of the sky," was assigned human properties and thus became one of the visual symbols of the power of God. As early as the Pyramid texts, the eyes of Horus represented the sun and the moon, his …

2015年7月1日 · Vision is, as philosophers intermittently recognize, quirky in the way characteristic of evolved capacities more generally. It combines great sophistication with surprising limitations and sometimes accomplishes its basic task of acquiring environmental information from ambient light in ways that are extremely counterintuitive.

Is the Eye Like What It Sees? Aristotle held that perception consists in the reception of external sensory qualities (or sensible forms) in the sensorium. This idea is repeated in many forms in contemporary philosophy, including, with regard to vision, in the idea (still not firmly rejected) that the retinal image consists of points of colour.

2023年1月14日 · The story of the human eye, vision, human perception, and how we see the world continues to intrigue the realms of philosophy, psychology, and ophthalmology.

Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP, volume 58) This book is a discussion of some of the major philosophical problems centering around the topic of sense perception and the foundations of human knowledge.

Many early Greek thinkers analysed vision, though (as the previous chapter has suggested) we have rather scanty evidence for their theories. 1 This essay focusses on three Greek philosophers who offered detailed and very different accounts of vision: Democritus (ca. 460–370 bce), Plato (424–348 bce) and Aristotle (384–322 bce).