As an amateur from the get-go, I find conversations with people who don't know much about philosophy to be pretty interesting. I'm always surprised by...
Fair enough on all counts. I hate to ask the annoying question, but - how do you define culture? I realize it's a hard word to define; I'm just asking...
My problem is this doesn't take it far enough. Art creates culture, it's not just an expression or experience of culture. Or, more accurately...one do...
No; art is culture. You have it backwards; art generates what we know as culture. So far, everyone in this thread except MJA is selling art far too sh...
Ok, I do agree with you on those points, on a basic level. I do think that art being valuable because "we enjoy it, find it refreshing, invigorating" ...
Are you saying that art is valuable because the same skills it requires are useful for utilitarian purposes as well? Why not just turn it around and s...
Not to drag up Berdyaev again, but he has, to me, the best word about art. I'll find a quote later when I'm at home. He says that the creative urge is...
I think I was just referring to your whole comment. I have to disagree; there are countless technically skilled artists who don't "break the mold" or ...
That's just the thing; I think assuming right away that depression must have a biological advantage or disadvantage is itself flawed (I have no intere...
Are you exclusively giving depression a physical source here? That's surely misguided, if so. Well, for one, the possibility of it leading to suicide....
I agree with you. It's funny, because I consider Beethoven superior to Mozart. I would venture to say a wide swath of the classical community would ag...
I think it's helpful to recognize that whether you think life is "futile" or not, any response to the question is fundamentally a belief. Whether you ...
Ahh, but I disagree...if you appreciate the structure of classical music, surely you can appreciate this beast of a song: https://www.youtube.com/watc...
That holds up for logic itself, but I could replace the word "logic" with "intuition" here; in other words, I still see logic as a member of a set of ...
I agree it's not a source, I've made that clear in my definitions, I think. I'm not clear on what you mean that logic is a set of methods, though. I t...
Sort of. Having a philosophy involves some sort of mental activity; "having" assumes a prior activity; I have cake by eating it. This is how I "do" ca...
Just that everything is experience, including logic. Just like Pierce and Aristotle are saying in your later comments. But what did Pierce mean when h...
Fair enough, I appreciate that. I think of "outer" and "inner" by way of this analogy: the engine of a car is made up of various components. Studying ...
Again, through intuition. It's interesting to me that when I bring up this topic, the arguments against it all have to do with defining terms. This se...
Logic - Arriving at knowledge through a linear series of 'if/then' statements. A systematic study of concepts. An emphasis on organization of concepts...
Your concept of science seems too broad. It's true that the scientific method is applied to things like ethics, metaphysics, etc., and this is exactly...
The problem I have here is that philosophy is treated as a science. Philosophy should be a search for meaning. Meaning is not an empirical physical ob...
Experience isn't flawed, it's just subjective. Logic is testable but still subject to flaws, as the constant bickering over logical arguments for any ...
I disagree, I think populism is marked more by an overemphasis on emotion or even a misguided intuition. As you say next, being a good artist involves...
Creativity, art and forgiveness are not special religious insight. Countless people have experienced the creative urge, experienced or given forgivene...
How are you equating an inward spiritual experience with anthropomorphism? Absolutely, I've done this. I "lost my faith", as they say, a few years ago...
This isn't a response to my comments. I'd be curious to hear if you have any actual thoughts about them. The divine element in humanity is something e...
The problem of determinism vs. free will disolves once you recognize the divine element in humanity itself. It's not a master/slave relationship or a ...
I think the notion that we "created language" is a serious flaw here, and the implications for "meaning" one way or another are pretty significant. Th...
Meaninglessness only has a semantic meaning within the context of meaning itself... In other words, meaninglessness is ultimately an apophatic way of ...
I would start with The Meaning of the Creative Act if you want to get an overall sense for his ideas. (Or have you read him already?) It's his earlies...
What have you read from him? It's probably his most mystical writing, in a way. He ties creativity to a bunch of different aspects of life and the wor...
I would maybe reference Tillich's concept of God as the "ground of being", or "God above God", which is similar to Gnostic concepts of God. Not to sou...
I'm working through it still, but intuitively, yes. This might sound like bad philosophy, but the two ideas taken separately both resonate in my mind,...
Yes, that is the real problem, I agree. I like Berdyaev's view of freedom as primary, the same as you're saying; he sees it as something prior even to...
True, it is an explanation that involves psychology, but it's also an intuitive conclusion, not a phenomenological or logical one. The problem here fo...
I'm not, thanks for the info. I pretty much agree with the concept, it's not far off from what I'm saying about forgiveness only issuing from the oppr...
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