문학적 유토피아와 철학적 상상력

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to find what is the difference of imagination between literary works and philosophical thoughts through which these two different fields are related to how deeply and correctly human knowledge can be understood. It is a true problem of justification for us to interpret the imagination with sense and reason when we think that there were plato's idea, Aristotle's metaphysics and epistemology in its purpose and era to know the truth of God, to make human beings happy and to explore the real and unreal world with utopian imaginations. Utopia originated from Plato that made people believe this world is possible has changed its theory from beginning to the present in the way that we think it is just a place where people live happily in sufficiency of resources with which they make their world idealistic and perfect. But actually this place does not exist on earth and in actual world except in literary works and philosophical arguments. In order to reduce Plato's unwritten language theory into utopian imagination, we need necessarily to show that his theory was induced from hypothesis and postulate as mathematics's assumption came from Euclidean geometry that tried to make the worldly matter as an object corresponded to the diversity of human existence in enumeration. In the theory of imagination Hobbes ruminated from the decaying sense that human beings obscure their thought to the memory when they recognize some matters composing of the movement of things. On the one hand, Hobbes thought that imagination focus is on the human beings' memory and the repetition of experience so that we are associated with this imagination as a mental interaction to dreams, senses and images in our internal organs when we are sleeping. On the other hand, Bachelard made us understand the imaginations that are inferred from the judgement of sense and reason with which we individually and absolutely represent images existed in the text and on the world. He said that poetic sympathy is formed from the author's experiences that can consciously and unconsciously be explained as the cause of events in the relation with existence of images in many external phenomena. The trend of humanism in literature from beginning to now started thinking human knowledge to illuminate the reaction of mind especially when Thomas More wrote his work utopia. His work in essence represented and explored the problem of religion, politics, cultures and freedom in a possible world with which in philosophy they skeptically suspected the tradition and God and eventually got to the problem of identity and individualism generalizing the imagination of judgement in reason and sense. Finally here is represented the imagination as a notion that motivate our pleasure and potential to understand the object that makes our knowledge be spontaneous.