If we were talking in a scientific context, and I wanted to give analysis to, say, a rock formation or a symptom of something else, I would be looking...
I don't buy any of this. The question of art lies with one question: is there anything that is both the essence of art, what makes art, art, and absol...
Ethics is analyzable at a level beneath perspective. Not that such perspectives don't exist, and that at a certain level of analysis, this "perspectiv...
Both of these are beyond what the question asks. Is there a way to show that in ethics and aesthetics there is an absolute embedded in the essence of ...
But there was an objection in this! The term 'information' fouls up the works, for the painting, say, is not about a state of mind sans the painting. ...
But then, what is morality, so that we can talk about amorality at all? This is, in keeping with the OP, an aesthetic question as well, by implication...
An interesting statement, and I am inclined to agree, if it wasn't for impossibility of pinning art's definition elsewhere. How else can you account f...
All I can say is, and I hope you give this more than a glancing thought, you're thesis is not about the definition of art. It is about the definition ...
You're a good man...errrr...woman....errr person... you're a good agency of interlocution, Praxis, who can spin tedium into levity. The world needs mo...
Errr, no. Art still remains undefined, because the question is still there: what kind of meaning, aesthetic, value phenomenon is this that makes art, ...
I would deny that amorality is a fit description of the world at the basic level. Of course, I see as you do that the world does not give favor in its...
Again (technical issue screwed with the first) Don't know why you want to talk about hot coals or billowy clouds. It isn't to the point. The reduction...
There's a couple of issues, I'm afraid, that prevent your 'reductionist' theory from rising above the level of nonsense. I already pointed out the fir...
They are both appalled by philosophy's attempt to rationalize the world, leaving the true, well, power and the glory behind, civilized and contained a...
It is rather that there is one, final context, and that is at the basic level, and this is phenomenology. On ethics and aesthetics: take lighted match...
Okay. AS stated, phenomenology can be consistent with this as long as you don't bring empirical sciences and their categories into it. These are to be...
Embrace it, or sublimate it, make it yield to our needs. I never found Nietzsche interesting enough to study. He is the post modern hero because he de...
Not about Hitler. He was just there as an illustration. It could have been Genghis Khan or some schizophrenic. People do have, and have had, pleasurab...
Yes, he talk like that, I read. I have always thought N had to spend his life struggling, literally. Nothing but miserable health, and he had to overc...
I have to disagree. The next question is not, what is self organization? It is, what is it IN self organization that makes art, art? It is not as if a...
I think art can be anything at all. Context of use would be the context of considering the object AS art. Other contexts, like taking the object as a ...
But mind activity is nonspecific. What, in the mind activity, is aesthetic? This begs for analysis, for mind activity is like Dewey saying it is all e...
But what is it you are fine with? I mean, what is it about art that makes it art such that a pile of bricks can be art? This issue presses forth. I sa...
No. The context is taking up a thing apart from others. Kant did this with reason. It is not that Kant thought reason could be conceived independently...
I am going to take issue with this. What you cannot define is emotion, affect. This is a given, irreducible. But even if we are willing to call the si...
But then, and your example is especially telling because it sets itself apart from anything we want to cll art; I mean, shitting and Bach, together in...
Look at this phenomenologically. Take a simply matter: the gummy bears. How can gummy bears be taken up ethically at all? There has to be some origina...
The good and the bad is not about guns, but about the bad or good that is embedded in experience. Before guns get our attention as being good or bad, ...
So first, see what I wrote just above this posting. I pretty well know Dewey, though he is not the be all and end all for me at all. Idealism? Is Dewe...
What this describes is the consummatory experience, a "real" experience as opposed to some routine, which is the enemy of the aesthetic. Here it say t...
Well, as with all things, if you want to get to an understanding at the level of basic questions, you have to ask, what is it that is there, in our mi...
First, this sounds like some kind of information take on Hegelian phenomenology. Disturbance? Is this meant to be the negation, while reintegration is...
But the idea is that to perceive at all is inherently aesthetic. to put this pencil to use or operate a forklift is aesthetic in that the applied skil...
If you want to describe what goes on in in experience as self organizing, you will have further trouble accounting for what this self is that is auton...
The way I see it, the pothole in front of my house is a nuisance and an obstacle to my daily affairs. But then, ask me what I think of it from the per...
The way I see it, the pothole in front of my house is a nuisance and an obstacle to my daily affairs. But then, ask me what I think of it from the per...
Yes, of course: All experience, whether I am pondering a thesis,peeling potatoes or painting a masterpiece, is inherently aesthetic. The artist is the...
I rather like what you said here. I think Dewey was right, if you want a philosopher who, though not passionate at all, found out why art cannot be pi...
Sorry, but I am having a hard time keeping up with responses. As to action as meaning, certainly K's analysis of Time and anxiety makes this central t...
Oh freddled gruntbuggly, Thy micturations are to me, As plurdled gabbleblotchits, On a lurgid bee, That mordiously hath blurted out, Its earted jurtle...
You say it has to have physical form, but does an idea have physical form? That's a loaded question; look: you set out to define art, that means talk ...
Arbitrarily? That would mean art is nothing at all. Take a signifier in language: entirely arbitrary whether it is 'tree' or 'namu' that is used to de...
I would put the entire enterprise of art creation in the mind. An object in the world is nothing at all until it is invested with meaning by an interp...
But then, what of the part of art that is not concrete? What of conceptual art? Sure, something concrete there, but the artwork is not just this; it i...
Sorry for not getting back sooner. I am behind and it will stay that way I'm afraid. Not sure which modern philosophy you are talking about. Brains in...
But I do think there is a real question, but is IS a question, not an answer: an openness at the level of basic questions. I think there is a real ans...
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