anopia

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anopia

(ænˈəʊpɪə)

the inability to see; sightlessness

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anopia - sightlessness (especially because of a structural defect in or the absence of an eye)

blindness, cecity, sightlessness - the state of being blind or lacking sight

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Here one might open a long parenthesis on the relation between melancholy and the other philosophical moods: wonder, the perplexity of anopia, and the Stimmung which Heidegger is most concerned with here: boredom.

The relation between transcendental philosophy and empirical science in Heidegger's Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics

What we are currently witnessing is neither justice nor solution, but governmental enigma and societal anopia, if not pure national hysteria (or madness).