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Title: | Seeing the forms | Authors: | Pesic, Peter | Issue Date: | 2007 | Publisher: | Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra | Abstract: | We reexamine Plato’s use of visual metaphors by considering his own treatment of light and sight, which differed from the later view that the eye is purely passive. Instead, he considered the eye to be active, sending out beams that contact the “outer fire” and then return to the seer. This essential activity of the act of seeing changes the way we should read many passages in Plato based on metaphors of vision, in order to bring forward the fundamental activity of the soul in knowing. Understood in this way, Plato’s words eidos and idea may refer not only to self-subsistent, transcendent “forms” but also to the active process of “seeing” that connects us with them. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316.2/42218 | ISSN: | 2079-7567 2183-4105 (PDF) |
DOI: | 10.14195/2183-4105_7_4 | Rights: | open access |
Appears in Collections: | Plato Journal |
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