But l think there are artists who don't want their art to be public knowledge and they keep it to themselves. — Wittgenstein
But l think there are artists who don't want their art to be public knowledge and they keep it to themselves. — Wittgenstein
We have the concept of art - a concept given to us by our reason. — Bartricks
We cannot know something by instinct, for unless or until that belief which was formed by instinct is ratified by reason is does not count as 'justified' and knowledge involves having justified true beliefs, whatever else it may involve. — Bartricks
Yes, I agree with that. Lolita is a great example of how beauty and morality don't go hand in hand all the time. Some people have unfairly criticized the novel for valorizing immorality, but because they don't understand the difference for art. Nabokov even said that the whole point was to capture aesthetic engagement and moral revulsion at the same time. — Artemis
I wonder what Nabokov would've thought of his work - Lolita - if it had a hand in a surge of pedophilia in its — TheMadFool
You’re still taking about beauty rather than aesthetics. I believe Artemis tried to point out that aesthetics can transcend beauty, or rather, our conventional sense of it. — praxis
I doubt people will be willing to grant such liberty to artists to make a display of abject immorality; in other words, art must maintain some moral dimension and that would mean, by my account of how the highest beauty is morality, that art has to be about beauty.
17 minutes ago — TheMadFool
Pop,
Why did Van Gogh paint as he did?
Brett,
Because he couldn’t paint and had no idea what he was doing.
pop,
How could they be popularly perceived as ugly when no one knew about them?
You didn't answer it, you said bacteria don't have minds. But now it seems that a mind is something associated with a brain and bacteria don't appear to have a brain( although you don't think a mind requires neurons), therefore a bacteria can't be conscious by definition.is a bacteria conscious?
— Punshhh
You have already asked me that - no, I don't see any good evidence that bacteria are conscious.
Have a good look at his work and read a biography about him. — Brett
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