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The idea made actual/concrete/sensual is what I equate to "becoming". It is part of the dialectical process of the aesthetic. But art requires more th...

I agree with you. Just read the next line I wrote. Like basketball, their are many versions, (like trashcan basketball,) and the conventions for each ...

Love me some Hegel. For me, i consider the "idea made material" to be aesthetic in nature (philosophically speaking), but I wouldn't classify every "i...

Nice jam. But it requires some skills doesn't it? I definitely don’t have the talent or skill to do that. If it is a style, then there are probably a ...

Where are the quotations? I assume you know how to read, so you obviously did not understand what I said? If you ask nicely I will directly quote myse...

Your welcome. Just look at any art forum on the interwebs, 99% shit. Even artstation, with all its quality control, is 99% shit.

A skilled guitarist with no talent will probably take longer to acquire his skills than the talented one. The talented one is talented because he can ...

Can anything be basketball? I feel like we can call anything basketball if there is an object that scores when it goes through a ring. But to play in ...

Thank you :pray:

I assume you mean creative writing. Have you ever watched a realtime artist demo on youtube, or taken a figure drawing or design class to get a direct...

The question right now is whether it requires some kind of skill to be an artist, or if there is no criterion to what constitutes and artist. I agree ...

Absolutely. Picasso was classically trained but chose the explore expressive art, and his classic training had an obvious influence in that endeavor.

Are you an artist?

True, there are no rules in art. As the master vilppu said there are no rules, only tools. Yet there are rules for the tools, and these relate directl...

Very true. However, when it comes to judging an artist's skill, the opinion of nonartist matters little to none. You do not need a special education t...

Intention is directly related to skill level in my opinion. It is much easier for a nonartist to judge the intention of a realist work, versus a cubis...

The most lucrative industry for artists is the entertainment industry, mainly video games and movies. The most elite art schools in the world are all ...

I would define it as a highly developed ability for craftmanship - to apply particular techniques with more or less virtuosity. It is something condit...

I bet it was his discussion with @"180 Proof" @"baker" and @"Tate" in the roe v wade thread

Agreed. Let's bring back Street!

The Matrix will surely allow it

I've dicked around with that notion myself

I noticed you mentioned that the notion of time is generally overlooked. The best solution Ive seen to this is the peripatetic idea of instantiation. ...

Absolutely

to be fair. Football is a decidedly Catholic sport, with the hail mary's, music city miracle and immaculate reception. To remove prayer from football ...

What else is there to fill it with? The Big Mind ensures that only the recyclable materials are passed into the future, all else is relinquished to th...

It was an allegory. Arguments come in many forms, you should open your mind to meaning beyond the obvious.

no argument? I suppose you are softening up to the notion of "Big Mind". You'll quit that monist nonsense soon enough.

Big mind awoke in caveman. Caveman mind evolve to glorious man of present day. Voila, indirect evidence of immanent Big Mind.

I think the immanence of "Big Mind" is sufficient to make it worth addressing. We have historical data that corroborates the likelihood of an immanent...

Monism is dualism gone astray, and that is saying a lot.

No, aposteriori. It's an informed opinion. So make an argument for either position, and I almost guarantee there is some way to refute it.

I can't either. Its a difficult question.

Absolutely. It comes down to personal preference, just like ethics. Each perspective is as rationally coherent as the other, making "consequence" the ...

There are plenty of other illegal drugs to keep them funded. It will definitely prevent the courts and jails from being bogged down with small time ma...

@"TiredThinker" There was a case: Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization

I highly doubt that. The abortion issue has much deeper ethical implications than recreational Marijuana. Not to mention, criminalizing Marijuana puts...

What the hell are you talking about?

Where did I write "substitute"? Did it? You are obviously confused. Let me dumb it down for you. If you wish to have a sound philosophy, it is a good ...

Authority is one of the essential criteria for a sound philosophy. If the speaker himself has no authority (such as every member of TPF), then it is a...

You make quite a tautology here.

A creature capable of abstract reasoning. Conceptions of good and evil are quite arbitrary, which would make their corresponding moral imperatives arb...

It was pretty funny. How can you not love monkey business :blush:

Perhaps jealousy is an ethically based idea. Whatever the case, it can only have significance as an ethical term for the ethical creature. All of our ...

But that, it could be argued, is just another form of self-overcoming. What do you think?

that was hilarious when the dumb monkey threw the blasted cucumber at the scientist

I did not catch the part when the monkey was thinking (about abstract ideas of what should or shouldn't be done). Those thoughts never came close to o...

That's the best argument yet for animal morality. But it falls victim to the phenomenological dilemma, that we can never access morality in itself (no...

If I were to give philosophical advice, I would say: lean into it... embrace your ignorance and cultivate the use of such sophisticated terminologies.

Of course, dummy . :kiss: Just kidding, you're not dumb. But I agree, values are less transient than feelings. They are the elements of moral convicti...