The methodological use of light metaphors in Aristotle’s On Philosophy fragments 8b and 8c
Abstract
The thesis that we will try to show in this work is that, in exposing his conception about wisdom in On philosophy, Aristotle would have operated taking as a starting point the assumption that in the order of knowledge should go from “better known to us” to “better known in themselves”. For this, we will divide the work into two sections. In the first, we will approach in a schematic way the use of perceptual terms in some of the works of the corpus (Physics, Metaphysics and Protrepticus). In the second part, we will analyze fragments 8b and 8c of On philosophy, which are the strata of the work in which this epistemological principle appears more clearly.
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