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- From: zeleny@husc8.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
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- Subject: Re: Eyes as Windows of the Soul
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.175808.14298@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 21:58:07 GMT
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- In article <zqnmg7c@lynx.unm.edu>
- rsquires@cyclops.eece.unm.edu (Roger Squires) writes:
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- >In article <1992Jul29.022611.14276@husc3.harvard.edu>
- >zeleny@husc9.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
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- >>what is the earliest occurrence of
-
- > How about St. Augustine?
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- Can you be more specific?
-
- > I know this was a commonplace
- > in the Middle Ages, don't know about earlier.
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- Any mediaeval sources will be greatly appreciated. Keith Morgan has kindly
- advised me of passages in Plato: _Phaedrus_, 255c and _Alcibiades I_, 132d
- ff. For some reason, I keep thinking of the Eleatics, but so far all
- efforts to find the guilty parties have failed. Likewise, Plotinus seems
- to be silent on this issue, though there is a lovely passage treating
- objects of sense in matter as having the same kind of reality as images in
- an invisible and formless mirror (_Ennead_ III.6.13). Eyes and mirrors are
- treated at length in _The Mirror and the Lamp_ by M.H.Abrams; however I
- would like to see a more recent source.
-
- >>mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
- >>whose soul is looking forward to all answers
-
- > and who can't resist a crossposting opportunity no matter
- > how slight the pretext.
-
- Read the original question, and tell me a single domain where it belongs.
-
- >Roger Squires
- >rsquires@cyclops.eece.unm.edu
-
- regards,
- mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
-