Quoting Ant McWatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Why bother writing "Zen & the _Art_ of Motorcycle Maintenance" if it's all > been said before?
Progress in philosophy, yes. Progress in art, no. > Quoting Platt June 8th: > > Progress in art? Not in my book. Beauty transcends time. It belies our > assumptions > of growth and progress. Are our buildings more beautiful than the Parthenon? > Are our churches more beautiful than Chartes? Are our dishes more beautiful > than > Greek vases? Are our musical compositions more beautiful than Mozart's? > Beauty > doesnt evolve and improve with time. The animal paintings by unknown early > humans in the caves of Lascaux have never been surpassed. > > Anyway, why beauty shows up in the equations of physics has never been > explained by those who reduce everything to quantum fluctuations. > > ---end--- > ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
