Those qualities which for lack of better words we call the true and beautiful.
The arts are sometimes taken to mean all the humanities which are not only the creative arts but the core subjects of history, philosophy and those subjects which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods.
Where do the arts come from and how their essential qualities of truth and beauty are to be described through ordinary language.
Science need the intuition and metaphorical power of the arts, and the arts need the fresh blood of science.
"That what we are not told, we must know nevertheless to be true".
The defining quality of the arts is the expression of the human condition by mood and feeling calling into play all the senses, evoking both order and disorder.
Truth is relative and personal. Each person creates his own inner world by acceptance or rejection of endlessly shifting linguistic signs.
The most distinctive qualities of the human species are extremely high intelligence, language, culture, and reliance on long term social contracts. But they also exacted a price we still continue paying, composed of the shocking recognition of the self, of the finiteness of personal existence, and of the chaos of the environment.
The primal role of the arts is and always has been to "make special" particular features of human, animals, and the inanimate environment.
The world that preliterate humans factually perceive is only a small fragment of the full natural world.
The arts are sometimes taken to mean all the humanities which are not only the creative arts but the core subjects of history, philosophy and those subjects which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods.
Where do the arts come from and how their essential qualities of truth and beauty are to be described through ordinary language.
Science need the intuition and metaphorical power of the arts, and the arts need the fresh blood of science.
"That what we are not told, we must know nevertheless to be true".
The defining quality of the arts is the expression of the human condition by mood and feeling calling into play all the senses, evoking both order and disorder.
Truth is relative and personal. Each person creates his own inner world by acceptance or rejection of endlessly shifting linguistic signs.
The most distinctive qualities of the human species are extremely high intelligence, language, culture, and reliance on long term social contracts. But they also exacted a price we still continue paying, composed of the shocking recognition of the self, of the finiteness of personal existence, and of the chaos of the environment.
The primal role of the arts is and always has been to "make special" particular features of human, animals, and the inanimate environment.
The world that preliterate humans factually perceive is only a small fragment of the full natural world.