康德和科恩之后的迈蒙尼德和视觉形象

IF 0.2 2区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY
Zachary J. Braiterman
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在本文中,我试图将犹太哲学与康德之后定义德国犹太哲学传统的反视觉中心主义对立起来,即认为犹太教——或者至少是其在迈蒙尼德哲学中的哲学表达——是非偶像化的和认知抽象的。为此,我试图重新思考《迷惘指南》中想象力和视觉体验的认识论-实证地位。一旦想象力受到理性的约束,眼睛或耳朵感知到的图像或声音,以及将这些印象组合和重新组合的精神能力,是否还有任何认知地位?启示的景象或声音是幻觉还是仅仅是一种修辞手法?它与人类心灵和有限的物质存在之外的精神现实有任何关系吗?为了解决这些问题,我探索了视觉图像,既有标志性的,也有非标志性的抽象图像,这些图像使《指南》与众不同。这是无法超越视觉想象的,尽管我不确定迈蒙尼德是否会意识到这一点。即使他留下了具象的视觉线索,如无纪律的想象的虚假形象作品或天使的出现和上帝的形象,在较低等级的预言中发现,他转向另一种视觉记录,即纯粹的“抽象艺术”,耀眼的光。关于这些问题,迈蒙尼德更像希腊人,而不是德国人,他谨慎地将视觉想象归为倒数第二的认知地位。
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Maimonides and the Visual Image after Kant and Cohen
Abstract In this paper, I attempt to consider Jewish philosophy in opposition to the anti-ocularcentrism that defined the German Jewish philosophical tradition after Kant, namely the idea that Judaism—or at least its philosophical expression in Maimonidean philosophy—is aniconic and cognitively abstract. I do so by attempting to rethink the epistemic-veridical place of the imagination and visual experience in the Guide of the Perplexed. Once the imagination has been disciplined by reason, is there any cognitive status to an image or sound that the eye or the ear perceives, and to that mental faculty that combines and recombines such impressions? Is the sight or sound of revelation a hallucination or just a mere figure of speech? Does it bear any relation to a spiritual reality external to the human mind and finite physical existence? To address these questions I explore the visual images, both iconic and aniconic-abstract, that distinguish the Guide. There is no getting past the visual imagination, although I am not sure Maimonides would have recognized it as such. Even when he leaves behind figurative visual cues such as the false image-work of the undisciplined imagination or the appearance of angels and images of God found in lower grades of prophecy, he turns to another visual register, namely the “abstract art” of pure, dazzling light. In regard to these questions, Maimonides was more Greek than German, ascribing, cautiously, penultimate cognitive status to the visual imagination.
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