T_Clark

I don't have strong knowledge of or interest in linguistic analysis, so I'm going to make comments from the point of view of an editor. General commen...

For what it's worth - This, from the "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy" article on Kant's Moral Philosophy: Kant claimed that all of these CI formu...

I think you're right, but I'm not sure. Are the CI and Golden rule logically or morally equivalent?

I am not in any way a student of Kant, but I do find his categorical imperative provocative. Here is my understanding from Wikipedia: Kant included th...

This came to mind. From Joseph Heller's "Catch 22," which I loved when I read it 45 years ago but which I'm afraid to read again in case it isn't as g...

Your knowledge of history embiggens us all.

Yes. That's exactly it. The reason it's hard is that van Cleef speaks English, the Mexican speaks Spanish, and the scrabble set is in Russian using th...

To clarify - I was indicating that my understanding of your character is limited, not your character itself. On the other hand, my statement is probab...

Based on my understanding of your character; as limited as it may be, and Google Earth; I believe this is not true

The forum in a nutshell. I think you need to get either Oliver Sacks or Rod Serling to write your story. Unfortunately, they're both dead.

Actually, sounds a bit more Oliver Sacksian.

Where I grew up, the name of the town next door is Hardscrabble.

Here are some examples of the kinds of things I have said in this thread about what art is and how to judge it's quality. I provide these as evidence ...

Not true, although it's true that I don't interface with it as a work of art. I don't think that means that my experience of the TTC is not relevant t...

Says you.

I won't say that I am able to experience the Tao Te Ching as thoroughly as someone in China 2,500 years ago, but I am confident that Lao Tzu would rec...

See my response to Noble Dust, above.

To clarify, what I was trying to say is that; if I can be deeply moved and informed by a 2,500 year old document written in a language I cannot write,...

I didn't say that the elements in my list can't be found elsewhere too. I also didn't say that including one or more or all of those elements makes ar...

In a discussion recently, someone said that it is futile for modern English speakers to try to understand and experience the lessons and message of th...

If the value and quality of art are a function of the viewers' experience of the art, which I think they are, then tradition, culture, heritage are im...

I think it's piles of crushed bricks - PoCB.

I don't buy this. You say poetry is dead but that, if it's true, just means that there is a shortage of good new poetry. It doesn't mean that good poe...

I think this is a really good example. It's the reverse of the P-o-B at the construction site. The P-o-B is not seen as art because, in context, it is...

P-o-B looks like a pile of bricks. If I saw it in a museum, the intent of the artist that it be considered as art would probably have been clear to me...

I never said that it did. Agreed. I never said that and I don't believe it's true.

Interesting question. First off, of course you're right. If I saw the Thinker at a construction site I would know it was art while I probably wouldn't...

I'm not sure what we'd find if we did a poll of the participants in this thread, but I at least have come to an understanding of what it means for me ...

I won't rip it to shreds. What struck me, as an engineer, is that this is a very engineering approach to art. Engineers like to have a rational basis ...

I just tossed that list characteristics out off the top of my head based on the kind of things I value and that get my attention. I've thought of seve...

Yes, Fauci is wrong. Immunization is a government mind control plot. Masks are a violation of our constitutional rights. Trump was actually elected pr...

Either you misunderstood something I said earlier or I misunderstood something you said. Either way, this seems like a fruitless direction for the dis...

I don't understand the question.

In my judgement, those are some of the things worth considering when evaluating the quality of a work of art. Those are things that, to my mind, will ...

Gracious in victory as always.

Government officials and employees sometimes put their investments in blind trusts to avoid conflict of interest. They give up control, or even knowle...

In a previous post, I listed some of the factors I think go into deciding whether or not a particular work of art is high quality: Your formulation do...

Congratulations. You're having a Boston sports year. I like Alabama, but it's nice to see someone else win from time to time.

Perhaps I misunderstood what you were saying in your previous post. Two thoughts on that. First the good, which is better than the bad is bad - As I s...

Yes... well...that's what we're trying to figure out here. Things have changed, so I'm not sure you're right about that. I hope you are. Just look at ...

This makes sense to me, but I don't think it's enough. Maybe necessary but not sufficient. I've thought about this from the other direction - New musi...

You say you don't care what others think, but I think you are interested in what they think. You're willing to listen and be influenced. Taught maybe.

I think that's an unsatisfactory answer. I'm not sure how much better I can do, but I'm going to try. There is something more than personal opinion an...

This is not right. You can read some of the other posts in the thread if you want the real explanation.

I didn't intend it as a correction. I think I'm asking the same questions you are. What was Wittgenstein talking about?

I'll throw this in with little hope that it will resolve anything. I'd like to try it out though. I have another definition of art that applies to my ...

When I looked up "hinge propositions" on the web, I got the same impression you did, but I'm not sure if they are the same as absolute presuppositions...

I didn't say it is an upgrade. I said it is what makes it art. Art is not an upgrade from nature. According to my definition, the entire universe is n...

I think that's highlighted by the fact that Picasso could draw a nice pitcher when he wanted to but he was trying for something else. I have often won...

On the day I was born there were more very, very good books than I could read in 100 lifetimes. Since then, there are dozens, hundreds, thousands of g...