The Understanding of Imagination: Remarks to Nicephoros Blemmydes

Abstract

The aim of my paper is not to present a schematic overview of the internal senses in late Byzantine thought. What I examine here is how Byzantine intellectuals dealt with the classical sources on the internal senses. I shall devote special attention to significant historical facts which influenced the Byzantine intellectual community, and differentiated it from the Latin West. In the second part of the paper, particular attention is paid to Nicephoros Blemmydes, the most important exponent of Aristotelianism in late Byzantine thought.