Cheerskep has fallen prey to his own objections regarding words and their meaning. Imagination is a word or, rather, a term, used in various ways in philosophy and we need to know precisely how Fry defines it, if at all, before accepting Cheerskep's unexplained intepretation. wc
----- Original Message ---- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, June 19, 2012 4:03:47 PM Subject: Re: "Art, then, is...the chief organ of the imaginative life; it is by art that it is stimulated and controlled within us, and, as we have seen, the imaginative life is distinguished by the greater clearness of its perception, and the greater purity and In a message dated 6/19/12 1:20:10 AM, [email protected] writes: > "Art, then, is...the *chief organ of the imaginative life*; it is by art > that it is stimulated and controlled within us, and, as we have seen, the > imaginative life is distinguished by the greater clearness of its > perception, and the greater purity and freedom of its emotion." > > Do you agree with Roger Fry? > > No. His soupy, romantic lingo allows, among other things, a person's paranoid delusions to be a product of his imaginative life. The great logician Kurt Godel would eat only the food his wife prepared, because he imagined that others were trying to poison him. When she grew too ill to cook anymore, he starved to death. (In Princeton.) It's hard to see much clarity of perception or purity of emotion there.
