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Cool. Glad I didn’t come off as too much of a jerk in saying what I said. Got to understand and appreciate traditional African artwork that way. More ...

Yes; "exactly" I want to say. I’ll offer that in many ways good art parallels good food. We each have our own tastes – in part due to different needs ...

I’ll try to illustrate a point via near absurd extremes. Will a frog’s lack of aesthetic calling for a work of art we all hypothetically enjoy, call i...

Short on time for now. I agree in large. Still, defining these standards of becomes quite difficult, it at all possible. But I agree it's something on...

There’s the saying that beauty, aesthetics, is in the eye of the beholder. I find this to be true. But then what differentiates the aesthetic from the...

Don’t know if this will humor you but it humors me. In college I worked as a security guard at a relatively small modern art museum. A visitor had lef...

OK, I didn't get this statement then. If you don't recognize P-o-B as an intended artifact, then how would you discern it to be art? How would anybody...

Just because something is aesthetically pleasing does not entail that it is art. A nice enough sunset, for one example, is not deemed by anyone to be ...

I've been contemplating that a lot lately and for some time now: an idea regarding volitional valence. In short, when we obtain what we intend as inte...

We westerners tend to be very attached to thingness. We grasp at things as though they were lifeboats that facilitate the very possibility of our own ...

Even so, I liked the general idea to them. :up:

:grin: I tend to agree with you on this one. But, then, how else resolve the questions addressed within this thread? Namely, what "is and is not art" ...

Didn't know who to pick on so I chose a quote form the thread's creator. But this proposal is freely given for anyone to rip to shreds ... if warrante...

I wonder how you would account for the occurrence of extra-spectral colors in the purple-magenta range, for - not being part of the (visible) electrom...

I get that, but ... Excuse me for this overused example, but it serves to illustrate why this in itself is incomplete: in relativistic discourses, is ...

I've only enjoyed his "Waiting for Godot", and I haven't read "Molloy" - though I do like theater of the absurd in general. And yet at the end of the ...

I strictly mean technical culpability; else phrased, responsibility for wrongdoing for which adequate amends has not been given. As in being innocent ...

OK, thanks for the reply. Again, my perspective accounts for this. But maybe this would be too far of topic.

You stated your statement (repeatedly at that) and provide no cogent justification for it. In a world of relativism I don't know, but in the world I i...

Speaking on behalf of myself, apology accepted.

Again, you have affirmed that my perspective is intellectually lazy or dishonest. The affirmation was yours. Its up to you to cogently justify it. :up...

:grin: Yes, I suspect the same thing.

Ok, but to me that's what the metaphysical law of identity, as with all other laws of thought, intends to capture: our inescapable, predetermined, "pr...

And pray tell, where does scientism and/or physicalism any empirical science contradict my propositions? Or maybe objectivity is not a good?

Thanks for the references. I'll check them out. I'm familiar with hylomorphic dualism. I do prefer the term "anima" to "soul" due their differing conn...

Ah, well that then explains things well enough for me. The sentence you're addressing is, after all, the summation of the longer passage you just quot...

You picked on me, so I'll ask of you: how is "the process of evolution selects for that which is most conformant to objectivity via variations" intell...

If you were to have no conception of what a house is, and you where to see what others know to be a house, would you perceive a house when looking at ...

Gandhi used physical force in the form of public physical resistance against the, at the time, British empire’s ownership of India - thereby harming, ...

In a humble enough way, thanks. Interesting for me is that if our consciousness can dismantle/diffuse itself upon falling asleep, then by the same tok...

Before you take off, I’d be grateful if you could to whatever extent confer or else repudiate this interpretation of Ancient Greek thought: Regarding ...

Consciousness - as in that conscious awareness of our own selves we’re inimitably acquainted with via memories, beliefs, values, intentions, and so fo...

Innocence for me is defined by blamelessness. Ignorance is instead defined by lack of understanding (maybe we might both agree that knowledge does not...

I like that as well: generative grounding. By the way, when I mentioned "young at heart" I had in mind that this ought to be part and parcel of eudemo...

I’m glad you found my take to be of interest, though I am a bit surprised. :smile: As far as support by scientific arguments, it does to my mind speak...

Hey, if the pinnacle of wisdom isn't about being young at heart, in spite of all the suffering and such, then I don't want it. Said emotionally, ratio...

Hey, no worries! No, they certainly look different to me. But its as if I cognitively - sometimes and only to some extent - separate the meaning I int...

This doesn’t answer the questions posed in the OP, but instead addresses these premises to the questions posed: I know that self-preservation as narra...

I find this statement beautiful. ... which isn't to diminish from the rest of the post.

:up: :cool: I don’t in any way consider myself intelligent in mathematics. I’ve got a weird kind of dyslexia, mistaking p’s with b’s or b’s with d’s i...

Could of course be. My thought is that he was referring to fire in the Heraclitan sense: flux, change, becoming, the philosophical notion of motion. W...

I agree with the absurdity of it: Where is there motion (in the philosophical sense of change - such as causation requires) within maths themselves? W...

I’m not one to believe that one can. To be more to the point, at least as I currently see things: I’ve so far found totalizing meta-narratives to appl...

More importantly, how ought I make sense of this statement: ... given that phenomenology disavows there being a "meta" in relation to ethics / values?...

Apparently just as much as you believe there aren't. Moral objectivity v. moral relativism in a nutshell.

Just wanted to through this into the game: a contradiction, as per Aristotle, specifies contradictory givens (propositions, states of affair, experien...

I get that, but then how can I interpret this in any other way than affirming that there are no (objective, if one wills) meta-ethical givens?

Or in any of my second-hand readings regarding phenomenology as an established philosophy, such as in its established distinction between noesis and n...

I have affinities to this branch of philosophy. Very much enjoyed reading Thompson's Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind, f...

That's an exceedingly nice analogy. Bravo! for it. One issue that can be raised: Might not an individual consciousness ontically create some of the me...