Well, in a way; I guess I'm just getting held up by the word "logic". I would say that a kinetic familiarity is based on past kinetic connections, and...
I'm not sure I fully agree; there is a logic or a reasoning inherent in many forms of music, but part of how music evolves is that the reasoning chang...
Maybe it's my autodidactic tendencies, but I'm not even sure what this sort of definition of logic and (or?) reason is. Maybe you could elaborate furt...
The difference is Banksy is used to being sprayed over. He made an entire persona out of being a "guerrilla" artist, so to speak. I'm not sure it's th...
So to be a little more clear here, the problem I have is with the distinction of what is primary in art. The idea, or the expression? We live in the p...
It's a great work of art. I happen to love Picasso. I saw the collection of his sculptures that was shown at MoMA, and it changed my life, I would say...
No doubt Barfield was a bit too keen on Steiner; Anthroposophy has a cult-like feel, although I don't think it can really be classified as one. There ...
That's true. But it's unclear to me what, if anything, the bull was originally supposed to suggest. And it's still unclear to me whether any actual ch...
That's pretty funny, but I'm not sure how the humor makes it better political art. I'm still not sure it's impacting anyone's opinion. It reminds me o...
I didn't say that, I made an argument for why I think a certain type of philosophical way of thinking is bad. You haven't addressed that argument. The...
lol. Political art tends to leave me cold; it's usually just a preaching to the choir. Sure, this piece is in the Financial District, so it doesn't pr...
I don't really agree with this, although I do see that sort of imaginative thinking as theoretically having some limited use. But I think it also lead...
Hmm, I think more what I mean to say is that creativity gives birth to truth. So the distinction being that creativity is the act of creating, whereas...
Looking at the chemical makeup of the brain that leads to certain feelings like love isn't a way of understanding why, it's just the how. Understandin...
Yes. This is a concept that seems to have no traction in an analytic world. And there seems to be no adequate way for that concept to be sufficiently ...
Paradoxes are an important purveyor of truth. Experience here is key; I haven't experienced death and whatever may or may not come after it, so I'd ra...
I disagree with Aristotle here; why should contemplative wisdom only be "about" right thinking? What's the point of contemplative wisdom if it doesn't...
I guess I'm causing a slight distortion in my discussion of this topic. I've seen in the past the attempt to subjugate imagination to various philosop...
Your question seems to suggest that no one has. I disagree with that assumption. No, they wouldn't know it if it batted them in the eye. Again, the ph...
Wait, but that's exactly what I was making an argument against. I'm making an argument against kinds of imagination. When I talk about functions of im...
Right, this ties in to the problem of specialization. The way thought is moving right now is towards more and more precise splinterization of specific...
Can you explain further? How could wisdom and truth be so far apart that one might not necessarily be connected to the other? What makes wisdom wise i...
Thanks for the link. i would view that type of fantasy as a watered down form of the likes of Tolkien, et al. Not to keep tooting the Tolkien horn, bu...
But I think the fancy of daydreaming or imagining stories is the very basis for all artistic work, or at least all pure artistic work. Artistic creati...
When I initially joined here, I would have agreed with you, but now I kind of like going to the home page and seeing all at once what sorts of things ...
No, it's not bad. I've always liked the simplicity of the argument you bring up: asking whether truth exists or not doesn't beg the question, but rath...
I was always struck by the existential weight of that question within it's historical context, especially because he then says he sees no basis for a ...
That's an interesting definition (it sparks my imagination), but it's not the way I would describe it. I see that as one function among others that im...
Because of the possibility of life after death. Or, the possibility of death eventually being overcome. I also don't think my own survival is my ultim...
Not to be lazy, but I was basically trying to make the argument (apparently not very well) that Wayfarer illustrated when he said: And then, taking it...
To clarify, I said that if morals are a function of evolution, then this would undermine evolution. So not just any relationship, but a relationship o...
Eh, what you say about gaining energy through forming a new denomination is undoubtedly true, but there are other reasons America is so Christian. And...
The difference is knowledge versus practice. This is where religious life comes into play. And I can't believe I'm saying that; I've been out of the c...
To the contrary, it's still the largest religion in the world. http://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/religious-projections-2010-2050/ And again, from the...
I didn't take it that you meant to denigrate those people; and you're right that they don't have the ability to lead, or at least not on a political l...
Really?... :P As someone who grew up in the church, there's something to be said for the man of simple faith. There's a pure childlike quality in some...
I vacillate between the need for humanism to reincarnate God in some form (??), and the need for some new form of Christianity (a mystical form) to ta...
Of course I have to agree here; I think what I was more so getting at is that Western humanity itself as a whole is responsible, including the whole g...
So why are you giving this description? It's the age old critique of the church, so perhaps I assumed you were calling hypocrisy because of the conten...
Sure, those guys are a symptom. But I'm not using wooly (?) spiritual terms, I'm trying to approach it morally, because that's implicitly what we're a...
Comments