title: Between knowledge and sin: Representation of the five human senses from the Ancient to the early Modern period
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metadata.value: Lisovich, Inna I.
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metadata.value: 2018-04-05T10:57:02Z
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metadata.value: 2018-04-05T10:57:02Z
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metadata.value: 2018-03
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metadata.value: Lisovich I. I. Between knowledge and sin: Representation of the five human senses from the Ancient to the early Modern period. Vestnik SPbSU. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2018, vol. 34, issue 1, pp. 91–107.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu17.2018.109
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/9354
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metadata.value: This article is devoted to understanding the five human senses in European philosophy, culture
  and art in the Early Modern period, which is associated with the teachings of Plato and
  Aristotle. They considered the senses from the point of view of knowledge about the four
  elements. Plato recognizes the vision as the noblest of the senses, as it is associated with the
  knowledge of the cosmos. He believes viciousness to come from the animal part of the soul,
  not the senses. Augustine in the description of the five human senses combined the principles
  of Plato, Aristotle and Christian’s ethics. He associated sense with sin, and the threat
  he believed to be “the temptation of the eyes”. Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas focused on the
  description of principles of operation of sensory organs and mechanical means of exposure to
  external physical environment. Scholastics have criticized five human senses due to the fact
  that they distort the perceived world, they relied on Aristotelian logic to arrive at knowledge.
  The author proves that in the Early modern period humanists and scientists actively revised
  all the faculties of the soul, including the five senses under the influence of Platonic philosophy.
  Bacon refers to the senses as “idols”, demanding repeatedly to recheck the data of the
  senses and the mind. This led to the recognition of observation and experience. The reorientation
  from the scholastic Aristotelian tradition to the mathematical Platonic tradition was
  also reflected in painting and the poetry. One example of this process can be of Shakespeare’s
  poetic reflection, where the objects of representation are the five senses. The poetic images of
  W. Shakespeare’s five senses correlate with the visual images of Rembrandt and Jan van Eyck.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 34; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: five senses
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the soul
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the subject of knowledge
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Plato
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Aristotle
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Augustine
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Thomas Aquinas
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Neo-Platonism
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the new philosophy
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: scientific knowledge
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: liberal arts
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Rembrandt
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Jan van Eyck
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: W. Shakespeare
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Between knowledge and sin: Representation of the five human senses from the Ancient to the early Modern period
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