L’idole au regard de la philosophie des images

Les enjeux passés et futurs de l’imaginaire

“…Il faut reposer les données du problème. Dans La vie des images (11) , Jean-Jacques Wunenburger apporte une solution originale au dilemme. Sa réponse consiste à valoriser la notion heuristique d'image et à lui donner une existence primordiale dans la vie mentale et l'activité linguistique.…”

Supratinga vaizduotė: naujos humanitarinės paradigmos link

“…The fantasmatic image loses its ontological value, because its imitation makes us believe that it is a faithful representation of generating being." 9 In fact, Plato demonstrates both tendencies of understanding the image, sometimes superimposing them: according to the first, creativity is a figurative manifestation of what is hidden in the spiritual plane, and hence the image can be regarded as a limited expression and representation of the true Being; the second tendency comes from the ontological approach to the degree of being, which aims to justify a theory of pure knowledge free of sensual images that lead a person into the realm of error. 10 Nevertheless, it seems that the main trend for Plato is the first one, as soon as he asserts the absolute externality of ideas to our senses: "And the one class of things we say can be seen but not thought, while the ideas can be thought but not seen" (Rep. 507c), and the experience "by the power of dialectic" is due to the identification of those who are able to disregard the eyes and other senses and go on to being itself in company with truth (537d).…”