La metafora della luce (e della cecità) nella filosofia della conoscenza

The philosophical stance is by its very nature a generator of metaphors. Western philosophy of knowledge has always used light as a source of metaphors. That is, a source which in turn produces constitutive metaphors for thought, such as evidence, clarity, distinctness, perspective, determination. The metaphor of light reveals a deeply pervasive philosophical stance, which we shall here define as spatial in kind. Challenging such a stance, we shall probe the possibilities and consequences of a temporal kind of paradigm, which, by placing duration and not distance at the center of its reflections, will bring out the reasons for opacity, or even of blindness, in philosophy.