[Avodah] Yetzer HoRa Issues

[Zvi Lampel]

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 from: "Micha Berger" <micha at aishdas.org>
Subject: To: "A High-Level Torah Discussion Group" avodah at lists.aishdas.org
> ...
Koach hadimyon as used by Aristotilians goes beyond the colloquial meaning of
the word "imagination". It's the entire ability to reproduce memories as they
were seen. Creating, recreating and modifying scenarios.... ...

> This point is by the way essential to nevu'ah, which is clothed in dimyon.
Yet, according to the Rambam (as explained .... see previous discussions), it
is still an awareness of a reality.

> Aristotle separated imagination (which he used to mean dimyon in general) and
desire as different kochos hanefesh, although he considers it a tool of mind
used only in support of real stream of consciousness thought....
Given this, I'm missing what's so ra about dimyon. Or are there two meanings
to the word -- one used by Artistotilian rishonim, and one used by everyone
else? <

Would it help if we would translate the "nevuah-type" of "dimyon" as "visualization [of reality]," rather than "imagination"?

Zvi Lampel
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