dmb,
Nice paper. What do you think of this quote?
"We have art so that we may not perish by the truth."
(Friedrich Nietzsche)
Marsha
On Oct 8, 2012, at 9:15 AM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Is Philosophy better than Art?
>
> If you believe Plato, then the answer is “yes”. If all of philosophy is a
> footnote to Plato, then the artists have been subordinated to the
> philosophers for about 25 centuries. According to Plato’s Republic,
> especially the last section, the artists present a danger to society and to
> your soul. Two of my favorite thinkers disagree with Plato and Socrates on
> this point. Friedrich Nietzsche and Robert Pirsig both make a case that there
> is something terribly wrong with this Platonic legacy. In one of Nietzsche’s
> earliest works, The Birth of Tragedy, he asks us to consider the consequences
> of the Socratic idea that virtue is knowledge, that all sins arise from
> ignorance, and only the virtuous are happy. As a consequence, Nietzsche says,
> the “virtuous hero must henceforth be a dialectician” because virtue and
> knowledge are necessarily connected such that “Truth” is the highest good.
>
> Snip
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