Abstract

The achievement of letting things appear takes place in different ways. It occurs as perceiving and as picturing, as remembering and as imagining, as naming and as articulating, as registering what is before us and as reporting what is absent. These are all forms of the "other illumination" which makes being in the light desirable for us. They are achievements or activities, what Aristotle called energeiai. They are not simply organic tensions or processes that occur in us, like pains, the circulation of the blood, or electrical discharges in the nervous system. They are disclosures; they let things appear. Things could not appear unless we or someone like us permitted them to appear by serving as the datives of their manifestation; we serve in this capacity by our various activities of disclosure.