That, is exactly what i am referring too. When I say that the shadows of the truth, is what you call the " lie", a distortion of the subject (truth), is where we individually find
our aesthetic expression of it. We have no other choice. Shadows of any thing remain shadows, distortions, aesthetic distortions to some. mando ________________________________ From: William Conger <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, May 3, 2010 5:05:33 PM Subject: Re: "You must learn to choose the truth before aesthetic preferences". (Auden) Close to what, the shadow? Are we in Plato's Cave? Shadows, spirits, things that go bump, slipping glimpses, all manner of ghosts and demons sprinting to and fro. Aesthetics is a habit of mind not nature, not truth. Truth has no values, it is only a quantified substance or meaningless state of being. When we use (regard it) it we value it and then truth is a matter of our choices and our values and it's then that the aesthetic can be applied. wc ----- Original Message ---- From: ARMANDO BAEZA <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, May 3, 2010 6:39:33 PM Subject: Re: "You must learn to choose the truth before aesthetic preferences". (Auden) As I sense it, aesthetics is never the exact shadow of truth, close,maybe mando ________________________________ From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, May 3, 2010 4:05:34 PM Subject: "You must learn to choose the truth before aesthetic preferences". (Auden) Does that mean that a work of art should never distort or obscure reality?
