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Lectures on the Philosophy of Being Human by
Leovino Ma. Garcia, Ph. D. Also includes insights and
reflections of his Philosophy 101 Class of 2012-2013
and 2013-2014.
Seeing
3 July 2012
Fr. Ferriols noticed that this insight had once been said
by Homer in a poetic fashion, in a metaphorical manner
(he included two translations of The Iliad in his essay,
because his little student named Leovino Garcia gave
him a different translation). He wishes to show here the
power of the metaphor, as, faithful to its Greek
meaning, one that "carries us beyond" what we
ordinarily experience, as that which allows us to convey
something that we cannot fully describe. To have a
metaphorized eye is to have the ability to see
something and convey it through the similarity between
2 dissimilar objects. The leg of the chair, the foot of the
mountain, the opera singer floating like a galleon. We
see there a kind of linking, of copulating two dissimilar
objects in order to convey something that our "ordinary
language" cannot reach.
Earl at 4:03 PM
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