Of course we cannot ask Shakespeare if he was being sincere when he wrote Hamlet. We have to wing it based on what is presented in the play. While Sch...
Schutz recently responded to criticism saying: ‘I Feel Somehow That It’s an American Image’ and that explains a lot, at least for me. You asked about ...
Germans seem to have cultural knack for order & efficiency, and the Italians a flair for design. . Germans & Italian fascists both shared a fascinatio...
Rimbaud saw the rise of the middle class, and its ideological demand on the arts for the continual creation of new works. I think he saw the way art i...
Ok, MU so getting back to the OP. How do you interpret Dana Schutz's work. She said she was prompted to create the work due to all the Black Lives Mat...
Homer's works, the Iliad & the Odyssey (songs) still enwrap our imagination, they take us into their world of magic, life & death, love and hate; all ...
The Atlanta roadway that caught on fire was apparently caused by crackheads doing what crackheads do. BTW the "Cash me outside" girl, 13 year old Dani...
Thinking about difference between socialism and fascism. Socialism treats all men as equal, Marx's notion is not about equality per se, he says Fascis...
"...which is why paintings may be inadequate when discussing such horrors and the impact the violence has not just to the victim and his family," No, ...
Great article, but it left me puzzled, not for the obvious reasons but rather why it did not mention anything about Synthetic Biology, and especially ...
My use of the term 'aesthetic' is that of our first experience with any object, it is of what is immediately presented to us, its surface. Any judgeme...
Art's aesthetic draws us to the work, the work's matter by way of its form strikes us (or not) as part of narratives that we understand. The value we ...
Of course we would not have a culture if not for cultural appropiation. Why do you say: Can you explain why this is so. I think Lisa Whittington's pai...
"...Cleanth Brooks, W. K. Wimsatt, T. S. Eliot, and others, argued that authorial intent is irrelevant to understanding a work of literature. Wimsatt ...
Well, I've been reading and thinking about this work of art, what is meant by cultural appropiation and how art represents reality. While I am not a f...
I wonder about the Dana Schultz's work, I don't think it has to represent reality clearly, in the manner of the stark photo. The sheer brutality of wh...
Karen Armstrong presents a coherent historical account of religion and violence here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/25/-sp-karen-armstron...
I think democracy is difficult in many countries because of their tribal orientation. Places where your role in life is first seen as a member of such...
The conception of such world, a utopia, is dependent on our conception of our world as we experience it. It is an idealization we base on our experien...
Maybe the problem is not with these religious notions about God, but rather involves our how our conception of what's good is possible. The term 'good...
Kant maintains that our conceptual access to the world structures the world as we perceive it. "Kant claimed that in traditional forms of epistemology...
I like Fredric Jameson's thought that Postmodernism is a historical period, one that started in mid fifties around the time of the Civil Rights moveme...
I read an argument about G's supposed foreknowledge a while back. It went along the lines that God sees all of time: past, presence and future, but it...
Yes, that's right, if you can only do good, then what you choose for lunch, who you associate with and whatever acts you do or don't must conform to g...
Well, sure if I had the power I would give creatures there the freedom to err, I would not make a world of p-zombies, where all thoughts and actions a...
Suppose that G had no choice, he had to create evil to justify his creation, to create the best possible world, even though we may question how it can...
How do you differentiate faith in a supernatural being/power or what have you from superstition, both seem to me to be magical ways of thinking. Super...
Well I have always disliked behaviorism, I think behaviorists tend to treat the data as the answer, which seems to be what the behaviorists are trying...
"The idea of trying to explain a practice seems wrong to me" "It will never be plausible to say that mankind does all that out of sheer stupidity" "Er...
I am not sure about G's existence, but I wonder if the moral concept 'good' does not also require a concept of 'evil' (like 'light' & 'dark'), but whe...
Augustine and, Aquinas more specifically, thought that evil is a privation, not just the absence of good but the deprivation of good, G creation is go...
II) Therapeutic and hence normative with cognitive and behavioural implications. My questioning concerns this apparent tension within this conception ...
Yes, that's correct but it seems clear that he would not have resigned if the impeachment process was not immanent, if the process was not voted to pr...
On July 27, 29, and 30, 1974, the House Judicarty Committee approved three articles of impeachment against Nixon, for obstruction of justice, abuse of...
Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath to a grand jury and obstructing justice, although he was not removed from office. Nixon was impeached ...
The GOP will have no choice if any material transgression of the law can be pinned against Trump, similar to what happened to Nixon. Actually, I think...
What is a "duty"? I think that's a great question. If duty is defined as 'a task or action that someone is required to perform' then the question who ...
Governments create, insure and maintain order. They create normative behaviors in its citizens, so that for the most part laws do not have to be const...
I wonder if Panpsychism, in board terms, doesn't entail teleology as an inherent characteristic in nature. The dilemma between nature's steady progres...
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