SOME REMARKS ON IMAGINATION. NOTES ON THE MARGIN OF DE IMAGINATIONE BY GIANFRANCESCO PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA (1469-1533)1

Authors

  • Krzysztof Wawrzonkowski Institute of Philosophy Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18372/2412-2157.20.10372

Keywords:

imagination, cognitive function of imagination, moral principles

Abstract

The aim of this article is to explain the role of imagination in human life, as it was understood by Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola. First, I analyze the cognitive function of imagination. Then, I discuss its place within the intellectual powers, its misleading character, and its ability of causing emotions. Finally, I try to point at the ways of controlling it by reason and using it by man for their own purposes.

References

Pico della Mirandola Gianfrancesco. On the Imagination. The Latin Text with an Introduction, an English Translation, and Notes by Harry Caplan./ Pico della Mirandola Gianfrancesco – Cornell Studies in English, XVI (1930).

Richards G. B. Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola/ Richards G. B. – Cornel University Library, typewritten, press no. T 1915, R 515.

Schmitt Ch. B., Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola (1469-1533) and His Critique of Aristotle / Schmitt Ch. B. – The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1967.

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Published

2016-05-11

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 2 (2014)

Section

Philosophy