![]() ![]() Nor does it recommend the displacement of other ways of essentializing human subjectivity, e.g., homo faber, homo dialecticus, or 'man the symbol-using and misusing animal.' (Consider how much would be lost and how little would be gained if a definition such as 'the seeing animal' or the 'image-making and unmaking animal' were supplied. Vividness, clarity, scope, proportionality, elegance, and other criteria for rhetorical excellence all imply firm grounding in the utilities and pleasures of sight.The prominence of that pattern or grounding may indeed imply a hegemony of vision over other sensory modes, but it does not perform a radical break from what Gadamer terms 'linguisticality' or what we typically refer to as the logos. Furthermore, the rhetorical/poetic category of imagery suggests similar principles of anchorage. ![]() 'I see what you mean,' 'I see it clearly now,' 'I’ve seen the light,' etc.-such a pattern of response pins abstract cognition to sensual particularity. 294 Dislike Share Evers Brothers Productions 1.65K subscribers This video goes into the theory of the Signifier and the Signified as developed by Lacan. Glaucon’s utterance-'All this I see'-is a paradigmatic figure of speech, not a literal knowledge-claim, which composes a prominent pattern of response to the words of others. ![]()
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