Noble Dust

I want a discussion of ideas where you present your ideas about aesthetics, not citations of entire books. You seem incapable of even presenting your ...

That's such a poor response. What evidence did you give to site your statements that "birds - and other animals - discriminate between potential partn...

Great; I'd love to see it. So Darwin used aesthetic language, and thus, animals experience aesthetics? That's all I'm finding in that quote. Indeed, y...

When has it?

Doubtful, but valiant effort.

What role does craft play in art, then? It's unclear what you mean, and the bold type didn't help.

Labor to me means work that serves a specific purpose. So a painting doesn't fall into that category. The welder did the welding so the bike would run...

Hmmm, I'll have to think on that for awhile. I don't really get it.

This is clearly a poor anthropomorphization; the only thing artistic about those things is our perception of the beauty of those things. Does a bird h...

Also, what do you think about Grosz's concept of chaos, against Berdyaev's, found in my OP quote?

Also, because aesthetics is such an underrepresented branch on the forum (and historically, this also seems to be true, philosophically), I wanted to ...

Thanks! I considered posting the initial Berdyaev quote in the quote cabinet, but then I visited that thread and noticed that the most recent post was...

Actually, I was curious, why do you like this? Does it have to do with being an engineer? I like it too, but that's because I'm a songwriter/composer/...

No; it would be disingenuous :lol: Old School Country And Western is great, though.

That sounds like skilled, honest labor to me. Something rare indeed. An honest mechanic is worth...no, is priceless. But art? Why call that art? If yo...

You probably score higher on "agreeableness" than I do on most personality tests, then. Good on ya'. So if rules (no rules, no matter what?) are not f...

That's the point of the thread, right? Are you a Neo-Schopenhauerean, or a Post-Schope? Who cares? Why define your own views against your mentor's vie...

Maybe; what's wrong with mine? I suppose it's not all that verbose.

The more philosophy I read, and the more music I listen to, the less interested in philosophy I become...

Why play if the rules are faulty?

I think inspiration transcends its time in the sens of Kairos entering Chronos; “The stars turn, and a time presents itself”, to quote Twin Peaks. The...

What do you all think of this? This idea and it’s brashness struck me the most, out of the quote.

The idea is that words, et al, bring order from chaos. I agree, but I don’t see how this fact nessesitates that this is the only factor of how creativ...

I think Berdyaev is saying our experience is coherent, but the stuff that makes up experience doesn’t have content till we experience it, and the crea...

Great quote. :up: I’m looking for philophical positions on art to potentially discuss, but these sorts of quotes also have a home here as well. Good f...

True. I took the spirit of the idea to be the descriptions that follow what you quoted. Can you expand? I’m not sure I know what you mean, or agree, i...

Neither do I. It’s too broad. Although after fenanglng over how to define art on this forum for the past year, I’m kind of done trying to define it, f...

Well, how sure are you about us Westerners? Maybe we're both making rash generalizations. The generalization about New Yorkers, though, is that they d...

The access to greater resources correlates with the higher costs; it's the same across any discipline. The result is both higher risk and higher rewar...

So as someone who greatly prizes entrepreneurship opportunities, I would imagine that fact might change your mind, if only slightly, about NYC. NYC is...

Great beer is all about the water source.

Not that interesting; it just smells. You can view it from the heights of the new Whole Foods, though.

I haven’t been; I work on the retail side of wine which means I don’t get out to wine bars for some reason. My friends and I like to have wine parties...

Don’t miss the wine scene! Pretty much the best in the world. And yes, I would sorely miss the food if I left.

I do. I’m not sure how long I’ll remain here, and I’m not sure how healthy it is for me. But there are some incredible things about it, and I’ve met s...

I’ve ran into friends before in the city. It’s possible but pretty random.

I’m sure there are endless entrapenuership opportunities here...

You underestimate the pain tolerance of New Yorkers.

No. Tho bros do go, tho. 'tro.

Huh, how is that so?

Oh, I never practice. I just write dope shit.

Oh, is it?

God, fuck off; too close to home right now. :rofl: I'm currently wrestling with my desire to express the inward musical drive, against the insanity of...

What about it?

I know about parametric EQ!

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Ah fuck, I just got schooled by the bossman. Whatever, I'll pretend I have a goal-post-moving argument that grabs sufficient attention so-as to preven...

Seems like a dialect issue; amateur has a negative con' over here in Ammuurica. Oh right, how many other aspiring career musicians do you find around ...

What's the correlation between civil engineer and hobbyist philosopher? :chin: :chin:

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