贝克莱视觉原理

A Brief Analysis of Berkeley’s Visual Principle

视觉中心主义包括肉眼和心观,贝克莱强调一切从感觉出发,视觉是感官之中应用最多的,他的《视觉新论》通过对视觉问题的探讨,从而为他的认识论哲学作了铺垫。他的独到之处在于他认为像距离这样的观念不是视觉对象,而是触觉对象,可见形相只是可触形相的标记,我们真正认识的是可触形相。进而将讨论延展到传统视觉理论中关于大小和位置等几个重要方面。

Ocularcentrism involves inner consciousness - mental vision, as well as outer visual things. In this mainstream, Berkeley representing empirism naturally insisted on his stand to see the world via perception. The most prominent problem of sense is vision. His book - ＂A New Theory of Vision＂ discussed the problem of vision; therefore it paved the way for the episte- mology. What makes his points special are that they are sensible objects rather than visual objects, the visual idea is the sign of the sensible concept, and what we really know is the sensible concepts that are marked. Then, he extended the discussion to such important aspects of traditional visual theory as magnitude and location.