Роковая метафора: зрение и слух в рефлексивном опыте культур Запада и Востока

Вестник Московского университета. Серия 7: Философия. 2021. № 2. С. 80–95.

Maliavin V., Ячин С. Е.

Western culture tends towards panoptical vision of the world where human being (1)  occupies the place of a lonely and tragic observer of the “world picture”.  Though culture’s relying on visual perspective may be quite efficient in matters of technology, it is not immune to a certain kind of optical illusion, which asserts the essential gap between empirical and spiritual dimensions of existence.  Chinese ethos is diametrically opposed to this ocularcentric approach. In Chinese tradition, the world is accessed within the (universal) Self. The metaphor of “listening to the voice of Being” is as characteristic to Chinese thinking as the thesis “to see is to know” to the Western classical philosophy. Though sight and hearing (2) do not exclude each other, they determine different ways of inner experience’s articulation. The Western intellectual tradition requires the externalization of experience, while in the oriental experience of inexpressible corporality one remains within the horizon of internal meditation. This opposition can stimulate creative changes in human history.

Keywords: телесность, визуализация, corporality, Visualization, cultural ethos, visual distance, voice and hearing, Этос культуры, Зрительная дистанция, Голос и слух