This is important point by Saul. To scratch the surface of Reality or Truth, which is the absolute Abstraction, is impossible without using representational symbols as in this case are shoes or temples with some elements of metaphor. Literal approach is deadly in philosophy. Boris Shoshensky
---------- Original Message ---------- From: Saul Ostrow <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Heidegger: The Greek Temple Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:29:35 -0400 Your being to literal - For Heidegger the truth lies in his construct as stimulated and informed by the art work. All the ideas he associates with it - including one that has an ominous tone of national socialism is the work (labor) of art - for these tell him about himself , his concern is for how the ways in which the temple is constructed stimulates certain thoughts - is an object of mediation and perhaps meditation in other words - the Truth of/ in art is what it tells us about our sense of self and its reality - for art is the object of our meditation on what might come to be known - revealed ____________________________________________ Saul Ostrow | Visual Arts & Technologies Environment Chair, Sculpture Voice: 216-421-7927 | [email protected] | http://www.cia.edu/ The Cleveland Institute of Art | 11141 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106 ____________________________________________________________ Free information - Learn about Wheel Chair options. Click now! http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2241/fc/BLSrjpYSvdNjPjTDZ9z1Qy9aJ1vTrp Sg7az3f9YxD0Utyo41R8xjqGMw08o/
