Sobre la adivinación por los sueños
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
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- Sin ruido de escaneo detectado (medición automática sobre todo el texto, no revisada a mano)
- Extensión:
- ~2530 palabras · 12 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APAAristóteles. (n.d.). On Prophesying by Dreams [Sobre la adivinación por los sueños]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/aristotle/on-prophesying-by-dreams
- MLAAristóteles. On Prophesying by Dreams [Sobre la adivinación por los sueños]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/aristotle/on-prophesying-by-dreams.
- ChicagoAristóteles. On Prophesying by Dreams [Sobre la adivinación por los sueños]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/aristotle/on-prophesying-by-dreams.
Referencia de la edición reproducida. SigPhi es la reproducción digital. Se incluyen año, editorial y traductor cuando constan; «n.d.» indica que no consta el año.
De qué trata
¿Anuncian los sueños el futuro? Aristóteles responde que no, y explica por qué lo parece.
Contexto e historia
El texto más escéptico de la Antigüedad sobre la adivinación por sueños: si uno de cada mil se cumple, recordamos ese y olvidamos los novecientos noventa y nueve restantes. El argumento de la coincidencia, formulado en el siglo IV a. C. Forma parte de los Parva naturalia, los ocho textos breves que continúan el De anima aplicando su teoría a fenómenos concretos del cuerpo vivo. Se han transmitido como grupo y se leen mejor juntos.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra el corpus.
[within the body] are, unless very great and violent, lost sight of in contrast with the waking movements, which are more impressive. In sleep the opposite takes place, for then even trifling movements seem considerable. This is plain in what often happens during sleep; for example, dreamers fancy that they are affected by thunder and lightning, when in fact there are only faint ringings in their ears; or that they are enjoying honey or other sweet savours, when only a tiny drop of phlegm is flowing down [the oesophagus]; or that they are walking through fire, and feeling intense heat, when there is only a slight warmth affecting certain parts of the body. When they are awakened, these things appear to them in this their true character. But since the beginnings of all events are small, so, it is clear, are those also of the diseases or other affections about to occur in our bodies. In conclusion, it is manifest that these beginnings must be more evident in sleeping than in waking moments. Nay, indeed, it is not improbable that some of the presentations which come before the mind in sleep may even be causes of the actions cognate to each of them. For as when we are about to act [in waking hours], or are engaged in any course of action, or have already performed certain actions, we often find ourselves concerned with these actions, or performing them, in a vivid dream; the cause whereof is that the dream-movement has had a way paved for it from the original movements set up in the daytime; exactly so, but conversely, it must happen that the movements set up first in sleep should also prove to be starting-points of actions to be performed in the daytime, since the recurrence by day of the thought of these actions also has had its way paved for it in the images before the mind at night. Thus then it is quite conceivable that some dreams may be tokens and causes [of future events].