Heart Becoming Eye. An Essay in the Ontological Anthropology of Vision

The present study proposes a new model of philosophical anthropology based upon the thesis that morphology constitutes the visible expression of ontology. It argues that the anatomical organization of historical humanity reflects not an ultimate anthropological norm but an ontological inversion in which the heart, traditionally recognized as the supreme principle of human existence, occupies a subordinate position beneath the brain. From this premise the paper develops a systematic reconstruction of an ontologically coherent human morphology in which the heart ascends to the summit of the organism, assumes the role conventionally attributed to the brain, and becomes the direct organ of vision. Within this framework, vision ceases to be understood as a physiological process mediated by a separate ocular organ and is reinterpreted as the immediate activity of the heart itself. The black eye of the reconstructed anthropological form is consequently examined not as an aesthetic or biological peculiarity but as the visible manifestation of a unified heart-brain whose entire surface functions as a living pupil. This interpretation is extended through comparative analysis of Homeric anthropology, biblical symbolism, ancient lunar traditions, Hesychast theology, and philosophical reflections by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, and Meister Eckhart. Particular attention is devoted to the symbolic identity of the Moon as the primordial Eye of Heaven and to the linguistic relationships connecting eye, pupil, vision, gate, and Being. The study further advances the hypothesis that the pupil of the historical human eye preserves the archetypal memory of the Moon as the cosmic threshold through which Being contemplates itself. Accordingly, the proposed anthropology does not describe an extraterrestrial biology but seeks to reconstruct the ontological norm underlying humanity itself. The article concludes that vision should be understood not merely as a biological function but as an ontological event in which Being becomes visible to itself through the human person. Morphology, language, and consciousness thereby emerge as complementary manifestations of a single ontological structure. Author portal: https://sites.google.com/view/yermakov-orcid