@article{Silva_2020, title={Baumgarten and the problem of obscure representations}, url={https://revistas.um.es/daimon/article/view/310851}, DOI={10.6018/daimon.310851}, abstractNote={<p>Baumgarten is perhaps the first philosopher to approach the problem of the obscure representations of the soul aiming at discerning in them not obscurity or irrationality, rather a new clarity and hence a new perspective towards a better cognition of the human soul. The objective of this article is to verify how Baumgarten achieves this; namely, by understanding how the philosopher inscribes obscure representations, the “ground of the soul”, within empirical psychology, and hence within metaphysics, as a topic of an aesthetic order; by identifying that which, according to Baumgarten, is the problem inherent to obscure representations, between the necessary and the impossible exteriorization (<em>chiaroscuro</em>) of the latter, and to attempt to discern Baumgarten’s solution for this dilemma, which is to be found in the conscious-unconscious <em>sfumato</em> of poetry and is occasioned by the inherent poeticity of obscure representations themselves.   </p>}, number={79}, journal={Daimon Revista Internacional de Filosofia}, author={Silva, Fernando M. F.}, year={2020}, month={ene.}, pages={101–116} }