Аристотеловата концепция за въображението
Aristotle's Conception of Imagination

Summary/Abstract: Presocratics' philosophy was characterized by developing mainly ontological problems. Socrates put the beginning of the genuine gnoseological tradition in the history of philosophical knowledge. That provided conditions to Aristotle, who pondering on the teaching of soul, differentiated and developed it into a separate treatise. It made the nucleus of his psychology and gnoseology. as well as the prototype of these sciences. In it, Aristotle presented the first integral conception of imagination. He studied that essential knowing faculty both in the context of sensuous and logical knowledge, and particularly, by juxtaposing it to perception, opinion, knowing and reason. Aristotle defined imagination as an image originating from an actual and non-casual perception. For him, it is of two types - sensuous and reasonal. On that reason, Aristotle launched the exceptional idea of the functions of imagination in the whole process of knowing, as well as its role of a bridge in transition from sensuous to logical knowledge.

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