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God told me to tell you to grow up and stop being a child throwing tantrums. God out.

God just became me. He wants to tell you to lay off the insults. God out.

Okay. Cannot debate myth.

No, as in God did not manifest in physical form as Jesus? Then what would be an example?

You are referring to Jesus, yes?

Formalism. They treat the art object as a physical object and try to derive properties from it. Disinterest. They get art exactly backwards--it is bec...

Yes, familiar. I have met Kantian art critics. They really have no idea what artists are actually doing.

This may be the section I was thinking about: "3. the compulsion to imitate: This is what distinguishes the artist from laymen (those susceptible to a...

No, I mean Kant was wrong when he wrote it. He barely mentions art works at all. Analytic aesthetics today still follows Kant.

Yeah, pretty good. I have been a practicing artist (painter) about 30 years and find Kant completely idiotic when he talks about art.

Thanks.

Do you have a particular journal you can reference?

I cannot remember the section, I thought it was Will to Power. But he explicitly makes a distinction between the aesthetics of making art and receptio...

While I don't find this topic all that interesting, the point is that if we were in a simulation we would not be able to determine it one way or anoth...

What philosophers? Certainly there are a few, but they write more for a religious audience.

Will you people writing constant insults please get some manners!

Back at you!

First, I reject scientific determinism. It has never been proven true. So, by free I mean according to that theory there is no freedom of any kind.

What is the answer to the question of life? What was that proof in 2017? What philosophers are talking about God?

Yes. Trials for these insurrectionists are arguing exactly that.

Trump using violence is hardly a trivial matter. His speech incites the violence and it is deliberate. By the way, new here. Are most people in Englan...

Socrates was challenging the authority of the state, Athens. It was intentional. They gave him the opportunity to stop and he refused. Was Athens righ...

I think the old, Newtonian model of determinism has been replaced by the quantum mechanical model. Absolute determinism is replaced with randomness or...

Doesn't that make the idea of physical law and determinism incoherent? The universe is deterministic and free?

Sorry, my mistake. I posted that passage to show that Aristotle's idea of art is treat it as producing things. Not just entertainment.

Riddle? Just say you did not understand it.

The idea that art is about production goes back to Aristotle: "Now action is for the sake of an end; therefore the nature of things also is so. Thus i...

Maybe. But Hegel is at least as influential.

Sure, no problem. But I'll take Hume over Kant. Kant is more influential in analytic philosophy, but I think Hume is correct and refutes Kant. Kant ju...

What philosophers do you call revolutionary?

In all seriousness, the only people talking about "radical" are conservatives. Not that you are conservative, but the term seems to be pejorative. Or,...

I would never use the word "radical" to describe any philosopher.

Well, look at most aesthetics today and it is mostly Kantian--the oppposite of Nietzsche. And I don't think any philosopher in history is "radical" in...

The aesthetics of production has nothing to do with art for art sake. Like I said, it is about meaning and the production of meaning.

Absolutely not. Just the opposite.

Making art is different from looking at it. Most aesthetics is about the finished product and ideas of beauty. Making art is more about making meaning...

"Art is life's metaphysical activity." (Will to Power; forget what section). Nietzsche was one of the few philosophers, with Hegel, who actually under...

"In an essay adapted for the Book Review last year, Henry Louis Gates Jr. warned, “whenever we treat an identity as something to be fenced off from th...

Picasso said, some artists borrow but I steal.

Agree. Not trying to be silly here, but didn't Christians 'steal' Jesus from the Jews?

Maybe that is the problem, absolute boundary of a culture.

Some complained that a white, female artist has no right to depict a Black male, Emmett Till. This is not good logic.

Okay, until then.

It is not nonsense. But if you don't have time then respond when you do.

What snippet?

Am I supposed to identify with every White Male? Is Donald Trump my identity group?! I have contempt for him. There is a deeper problem here with the ...

If you are saying the Bible is fictional the same way Shakespeare's Hamlet is fictional then I would agree.

The Bible lied?

Didn't God flood the world?

Identity politics is a type of group solipsism. You can only understand yourself as a member of a social group.