Saturday, March 5, 2011

Movement in Imagination

At first, I groaned when I saw the page count, but I quickly forgot that I was reading fourteen pages when I started reading. Despite having moments when I felt it was getting a bit winded, this read was very interesting and insightful. What Imagination Is... It had a lot of interesting ideas and theories that I found myself smiling the whole time.

i really enjoyed this break down that he did between opinion, knowledge, sensation, and imagination. I vaguely remember it being said that imagination was not a sense but by the end, it had seemed to morph into a sense of moment. He had a lot of different views, especially regarding animals as relying on instinct and imagination because they lacked the capacity for opinions or knowledge. It makes me curious to see how these philosophers would react in modern times with the vast amount of intellectual animals that was have, especially the dolphins and primates who have a large understanding and can even give opinions of what types of food they like. Or the such.

I simply really enjoyed this reading.

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