Are artworks created or discovered?
I am trying to deny Joseph Margolis' argument that pieces of art are not'universals'. Particularly, I want to say that types (in the tokens-of-a-type sense) are essentially the same thing as...
View ArticlePhilosophy of storytelling from non-western cultures
In the west, most of our thoughts on storytelling seem to originate and be influenced by Aristotle's Poetics, in one form or another.However, it seems that in other cultures storytelling is often very...
View ArticleWhy does Schopenhauer think aesthetic experience is the suspension of pain...
In an discussion about Schopenhauer , the French philosophy teacher Christophe Salaün says:"L'expérience esthétique est la suspension momentanée de la douleur, du désir. En supprimant provisoirement la...
View ArticleAuthenticity in art
I know the question some how tricky if not even boring, but the other day during a conference about Guido Reni and Caravaggio’s Saint Peter a group of scholars were discussing if a philological reading...
View ArticleDoes Endgame make sense?
I believe that Beckett's Endgame is meant to be the epitome of meaningless literature. Some seem to think that the critical theorist Adorno thinks that art is a meaningless brand that shows itself to...
View ArticleIdentification of light with existence and darkness with non-existence [closed]
Is it true that in ancient times many thinkers identified light with existence (essence), and darkness with non-existence?Examples include Pythagoreanism, Neoplatonism, the ontology of light...
View ArticleCan the product of creativity always be classified as analogy?
Without concepts there can be no thought, and withoutanalogies there can be no concepts.—Hofstadter and SanderPart of the creative process of a sculpter is to visualize a shape within a stone and then...
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Is the value of art always contextual, or can it ever be inherent?
A few years back, I was in a modern art museum and saw this painting by Russian Suprematist artist Kazimir Malevich:It seems to me that the value of this painting lies completely in the identity of its...
View ArticleIs physical attractiveness subjective? [closed]
At one level, it seems obviously the case that this is true. Yet clearly, there are people who exist that most would call attractive and others who most would call not. So, how is the question of...
View Articleis there a principled distinction between ethics and esthetics?
Judgments of good and judgments of beauty have a lot in common. In both cases, there is no generally agreed objective yardstick yet people who make the judgments often seem to believe that the judgment...
View ArticleDoes an aesthetic dichotomy between universalism and relativism occur widely...
Roughly speaking, there appears to be a recurrent attitude some people have about what intrinsically separates “good art” from some intrinsically held reason some art is not good. We can imagine such...
View ArticleAre fairytales Immoral?
Disney and other prominent movie production studios are making a genre out of remakes of classical fairytales, like Little Mermaid or Peter Pan. The goal is to take on broader cultural contexts and...
View ArticleIs mathematics an art?
I'm thinking of art in the traditional sense as visual, musical or literary.Mathematics certainly requires technique, and hence one can say craftmanship. But whereas the production of an art (at least...
View ArticleCan AI make aesthetic judgments?
I'm guessing AI could maybe be used to determine the simplest solution, and I think it can clearly be used to check when a proof works. But can AI make aesthetic judgments? If so, then it may well end...
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Is 'analytic' opposed to 'synthesis', as universal rather than traditional?
I'm reading a book on Russian theatre and it mentionsa similarity in intent... [to]the work of the cubists... intention was both analytic andsynthetic... both the investigation of the universal...
View ArticleWhat did Nietzsche mean by monsters and the abyss?
What do you think Nietzsche meant by "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."...
View ArticleWould sublime landscapes give Coleridge "humble feelings" or "sublime feelings"?
Lately I've been reading and rereading The Abolition of Man, by C. S. Lewis. He opens by discussing "the well-known story of Coleridge at the waterfall" and the way that an English textbook he was...
View ArticleWhat meta-ethics is most commonly associated with 'hard determinism'?
Since moral responsibility seems to require free will, harddeterminism implies that people are not morally responsible for theiractions.So what exactly does that imply about supposed moral knowledge...
View ArticleWhy did not former epochs distinguish between 'art' and 'craft'?
Source: p. 18 Middle, Beauty: A Very Short Introduction (2011) by Roger Scruton.That said, we should recognize that the distinction between aesthetic and utilitarian interests is no more clear than the...
View ArticleWhat is "high art"? [closed]
Does the difference with low art still matter, and is high art not merely socially sanctioned by class but superior to low art, to the extent of the latter being an embarrassing mistake?Feel free to...
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