Intervention de :
Colloque international : Early Modern Metaphors of Knowledge
Date : 3 septembre 2021
Lieu : Prague, République Tchèque
Organisation : , Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague and German Historical Institute Warsaw (organisateurs Vladimir Urbanek, Lenka Řezníková, Petr Pavlas)
Présentation de l'intervention
This paper will examine the metaphors of discovery and invention (in the modern sense of discovery of new knowledge, technologies or skills), in the text of the physician and philosopher Juan Huarte de San Juan, who wrote and published in 1575 his Examen de ingenios para las ciencias (
Our paper will analyse the significance of two images
-the image of the ingenium as a faculty of engendering, of creating new knowledge and mental objects, the metaphors of childbirth, paternity or maternity.
– the image of the way, of the traced path, the goats and sheep, the wandering off the known paths. Indeed, in Huarte, inventive spirits, who discover new knowledge, are compared to goats, who move away from known paths to discover new ones, while spirits who merely follow tradition and repeat authorities are compared to sheep who stay on the well-trodden path. We will analyse how these images are used by Huarte, how Huarte remotivates and reinterprets them and finally how these images are used in the service of a self-promotional discourse. In other words, these images also serve to legitimise the approach to knowledge proposed by Juan Huarte de San Juan in his Examen de ingenios para las ciencias (1575).
Plus d'informations : http://komeniologie.flu.cas.cz/en/akce/seminare/early-modern-metaphors-of-knowledge