“Imagination is more important than knowledge”, is a famous quote of
Albert Einstein. The human is a multidimensional being. Man’s imagination
frees him from this real world, his memory helps him be aware of what
happened, and his perception gives him the chance to be aware of the present.
If one factor of these was absent the person becomes an unconscious mind
working just like a robot. Imagination encloses the whole world; it is the
bequest of life and is indeed far more than knowledge. It is the consciousness
of both a real and an unreal object. Imagination gives the human being a
break from reality, it gives the power that allows the individual to
differentiate himself from this world, represent himself or even create his
own. Jung believes that imagination falls between reason and affectivity where
it can manifest itself in all forms of psychic life from thoughts to feelings,
sensations and intuitions. Charles Baudelaire gave imagination the slogan
“queen of faculties”; in other words, he means that without it all other
faculties from art, work to many more, seem nonexistent. However, some
faculties like cinemas, televisions and devices are stimulated by a vigorous
imagination that can lead us into a fictitious world. Basically, this quotation
focuses on how imagination is controlled by perceived images in our pasts.
GP: What is the nature of imagination?
SP: Is imagination related to images perceived in past experiences coming
from our sensations? Or is it simply related to our mind and thoughts towards
an absent object?
This quotation attributes the fact that imagination belongs to the
empiricists theory where this imagination is rooted from past experiences and
sensations. To start, according to empiricists, imagination is the reproduction
of previously perceived images towards a sensitive object. It is bound closely
to sensations and plays a cognitive process in human thoughts. Thus,
imagination became the real foundation of human understanding.
Imagination is a pivotal term; it can be distinguished from faculties such as
memory and reason, but its distinction from perception is not obvious. To
determine the nature of imagination, Hume inquires into the nature of human
understanding. He restates Locke’s theory of ideas and formulates the
following criterion of knowledge: all elements of our perception come from
Albert Einstein. The human is a multidimensional being. Man’s imagination
frees him from this real world, his memory helps him be aware of what
happened, and his perception gives him the chance to be aware of the present.
If one factor of these was absent the person becomes an unconscious mind
working just like a robot. Imagination encloses the whole world; it is the
bequest of life and is indeed far more than knowledge. It is the consciousness
of both a real and an unreal object. Imagination gives the human being a
break from reality, it gives the power that allows the individual to
differentiate himself from this world, represent himself or even create his
own. Jung believes that imagination falls between reason and affectivity where
it can manifest itself in all forms of psychic life from thoughts to feelings,
sensations and intuitions. Charles Baudelaire gave imagination the slogan
“queen of faculties”; in other words, he means that without it all other
faculties from art, work to many more, seem nonexistent. However, some
faculties like cinemas, televisions and devices are stimulated by a vigorous
imagination that can lead us into a fictitious world. Basically, this quotation
focuses on how imagination is controlled by perceived images in our pasts.
GP: What is the nature of imagination?
SP: Is imagination related to images perceived in past experiences coming
from our sensations? Or is it simply related to our mind and thoughts towards
an absent object?
This quotation attributes the fact that imagination belongs to the
empiricists theory where this imagination is rooted from past experiences and
sensations. To start, according to empiricists, imagination is the reproduction
of previously perceived images towards a sensitive object. It is bound closely
to sensations and plays a cognitive process in human thoughts. Thus,
imagination became the real foundation of human understanding.
Imagination is a pivotal term; it can be distinguished from faculties such as
memory and reason, but its distinction from perception is not obvious. To
determine the nature of imagination, Hume inquires into the nature of human
understanding. He restates Locke’s theory of ideas and formulates the
following criterion of knowledge: all elements of our perception come from
