I am sorry I complemented you on separating human attraction to the aesthetic of beauty in arts and human and animal attraction to purely physiological elements in the mechanisms of survival. I don't like recycled discussions, but I will help clarify your own writing for you. Experiencing the work of art is much more then attraction of a bee to the flower. The difference is a spiritual component and involvement of a human creation. To use the word attraction in the connection between earth and sun is stupid, so I try to avoid to do that. They are not biological systems. Their survival depends on physical laws, not 'Darwinism'. Boris Shoshensky To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Beauty is considered to be the culmination or perfection of speci fic qualities Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:51:20 GMT
Given his past interest in considering aesthetics as a biological process, I was hoping that Boris would jump at the opportunity to discuss beauty as a kind of attraction, and then discuss attraction as a biological principle (the attraction of bees for flowers, vultures for carrion, male for female, etc). Indeed, I was even hoping that Boris would expand that discussion to the rest of our universe (the attraction of the earth for the sun, positive ions for negative ions etc), and perhaps connect it all to the inclination of things " to evolve in the direction of good end goals, aside from any bad exploratory paths temporarily taken. (as Francis has put it) But alas, he would seem to prefer to distinguish beauty from attraction. It's just that he hasn't begun to do that either. Perhaps the hot summer weather has addled him. Perhaps it has addled me as well, because I finally appreciate some of Frances' tedious prose: " The aesthetic and artistic differentia of natural and cultural objects and their forms with their "qualities" is to further be found in the force and power they have to reflect worthy values and to evoke intense responses in extraordinary ways. The differentia of artworks is found in the ability of their form to be empowered and reflective and evocative in ways not possible with ordinary objects of nonart. The form of an aesthetic object to be agreed as a work of art must bear and yield this power, and to further show this power as being able to reflect worthy values and to evoke intense responses." The phrase: "power they have to reflect worthy values" should be added to Michael's aesthetic credo, although his modern self would probably recoil from it for a variety of reasons. (which both Cheerskep and William would be happy to provide, were they not also on summer vacation) ____________________________________________________________ Easy-to-use, advanced features, flexible phone systems. Click here for more info. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/BLSrjnxcAB2TVxvau1nZw3wk879slX ZQ5OlpvxlHRKstNFf0rpQzPqf4Rna/
