Aristotle on Intelligent Perception

IF 1.4 1区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY Philosophers' Imprint Pub Date : 2021-12-10 DOI:10.3998/phimp.660
Marc Gasser-wingate
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Aristotle presents perception as a potentially intelligent form of cognition—a form of cognition that allows us to respond in discerning, knowing ways to a range of different situations, and develop certain theoretical insights relevant to some inquiry. But it’s not clear how we should understand the interaction between our rational and perceptual powers in these cases, or how widespread we should take their interaction to be. In this paper I argue against interpretations on which human perception would be an inherently rational power. I then develop an alternative view of intelligent perception that seeks to do justice to the role Aristotle assigns nonrational uses of perception in his account of our learning, and to his emphasis on the continuity between animal and human forms of cognition. On the view I develop, our rational powers allow us to develop a reflective understanding of the knowledge we acquire by purely perceptual means—a reflective understanding that can then affect what we recognize perceptually, and thereby yield forms of action and insight unavailable to other animals.
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亚里士多德论智能感知
亚里士多德将感知视为一种潜在的智能认知形式,这种认知形式使我们能够对一系列不同的情况做出有洞察力的、有认知的反应,并发展出与某些探究相关的某些理论见解。但目前尚不清楚在这种情况下,我们应该如何理解我们的理性力量和感性力量之间的互动,也不清楚我们应该如何看待它们的互动。在本文中,我反对将人类感知视为内在理性力量的解释。然后,我发展了一种关于智能感知的替代观点,试图公正地对待亚里士多德在描述我们的学习时对感知的非理性使用所扮演的角色,以及他对动物和人类认知形式之间连续性的强调。根据我的观点,我们的理性力量使我们能够对我们通过纯粹的感知手段获得的知识形成反思性理解——这种反思性理解可以影响我们感知到的东西,从而产生其他动物无法获得的行动形式和洞察力。
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