APPROACH TO THE TOPIC OF THE VISION OF DARKNESS IN DE ANIMA II 7 FROM THE COMMENTS OF AVERROES
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Averroes, Vision theory, Darkness, Medieval philosophyAbstract
The problem of “scotopic vision”, or vision under conditions
of 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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