A couple of paintings from my recent trip to Porto, Portugal. It's beautiful town set on hills over looking the Duero river. /uploads/resized/files/bg...
The aesthetic affect lies in how the poet's meaning is conveyed in a single 'comical' image, which in this poem is as much tied to nature as it is to ...
Ecclesiastes 7:7-12 I think this addresses aspects of wisdom as forms of comportment, in a way which is wholly human. Oppression (life) makes a wise m...
If the following information is correct, these drugs appear to open up channels, which are normally segregated, or which became segregated as we matur...
To my mind truth is a kind of un-concealment (disclosure-alethea), expanding our determinate concepts ("fixed meanings"), as part of our ongoing proce...
A monkey picks up a bone and discover's it can crack nuts with the bone, a tool. He takes the tool and uses it in battle with other monkey's....he rea...
I think hope is inherent in our cultural bias towards the future, towards the open possibilities that lie ahead. But our desires, what we hope for are...
The beauty in a work of art evolves dialectically out of its normative context. The negation of what is contained in the concept of the object enables...
Your question is in response to my statement that art: What I mean here is that there is no interest extraneous to the work, which makes the work beau...
I have read through it a couple of times, and I like his ideas about Corelationalism and what he calls Facticity The only problem is that I keep losin...
If you look at the progression of a painter's works, especially early 20th century painters, there is a strong tendency to start with nature and then ...
We, the observers are as necessary as the artist, as the work, as the whole history of art. But what fascinates, what sets our imagination on fire is ...
If it had a purpose then it could not be beautiful, because what is beautiful must be beautiful as such with no ulterior motive or interest beyond its...
We can discuss it, if you are looking for a full blown theory then no. I think natural beauty is where all art starts. Our fascination with of what we...
If by "aesthetic" you mean surface then yes, it stems from what we see in nature, but that does not limit it, rather nature forms the basis from which...
I watched the original series and a few of the episodes from the return, which were very good, it takes me a long time to watch a TV series generally....
Are you on Monsanto's payola? Report by Wiley 5/17/17 Good thing Bayer is purchasing them, no bugs will remain. Or perhaps not... https://youtu.be/CGT...
If there were an evil empire it would be Monsanto. They are audaciously corrupt paying off scientists and ignoring EU parliamentary hearings. Their pr...
On a Freudian basis she broke through the societal taboos that are common to men and woman. Her work, the art, liberated the audience. It enabled them...
I'll stick with GDP, it gives a clearer picture of size than Purchasing Power Parity, which, It is not measuring size, it is measuring purchasing powe...
The following based on World Bank data 2017: https://assets.weforum.org/editor/eu8_S0HTtNOQk2IGJ6z2xdMshxuDoPLsB7OUb46CHho.png Funny that's not what E...
US may be fucked up in many ways, but it still has the largest economy in the world. The Marshal Plan is over, and here is one point I agree with Trum...
If I recall correctly there was a version of this experiment in which the instructor issued orders, to be obeyed, it was not the prodding method of th...
There is a difference between knowing what is good and doing what is good. In general we all know what is good, but we don't always do it. We continua...
I think that Milgram's experiment is very different from Abramovic's performance. Milgram's experiment purpose was to see how far people would go in t...
What does it mean to say that sweetness exists? The phenomenal makes no sense without me, but the phenomenal is not an hallucination, there is somethi...
When you have a deliriously cool creamy ice cream cone, where do you think that deliciousness, cool, creamy taste is... in the thing? Do you think som...
Here is what interested me in Laurie Penny's response: My leap here is that the occlusion you mentioned is due to our inherent fear of the patriarchal...
I was fascinated by the interchange between Scott & Amy, how she was able to draw him out and at the same time reveal a lot about herself. As far as e...
Trump's feud with the NFL is a distraction, he is attempting to focus the public on a symbolic issue and turn it away from his own ineptitude as presi...
Our understanding nature is not the same as nature, regardless of the predictive successes of any science, what is in-itself is not an obtainable poin...
I agree with @"unenlightened" on this. . The facticity of the world is the absence of reason for any reality, there is no ultimate ground for the exis...
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