Quoting Krimel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Platt] > Sorry you had to wait that long before you could appreciate beauty. For > most, a sense of beauty, like the sense of quality, co-exists with > experience, beginning at birth. > > [Krimel] > To rephrase your buddy Wilber a bit what you are talking about above might > be thought of a pre-aesthetic. It has nothing to do with art at all. In fact > given it's universality among humans it would appear to be genetically > determined like morality. > > Art is just something produced by an artist to be appreciated as beautiful. > Nature without artists provides ample objects of beauty to satisfy this > pre-aesthetic sense. Just read SA's posts. > > The ability to create art for others to appreciate might be termed > tran-aesthetic in that it involves the ability to produce outward > expressions of the inner beauty of one person that resonate with the > aesthetic sense of others.
By George, I think he's got it! Only there's nothing "trans" about it. Beauty like Quality, is Beauty, no matter how or when created. > Certainly our aesthetic sense changes over time; both in our ability to > produce and appreciate the art produced. The point that you are missing is > that the production of trans-aesthetic works of art absolutely depends of > the development of science and technology. Like I said, nothing transcends the art produced by the cavemen of Lascaux. > Furthermore an appreciation of the science and technology greatly enhances > the ability to see and appreciate beauty. It adds new layers and dimensions > to the infantile aesthetic sense. Perhaps if you had taken the spiritual and > consciousness expanding disciplines offered to you in school as a child more > seriously you could see this. But unfortunately talking to you is often like > trying to explain the nuances of Thalo Green to a blindman. Speaking of infantile, you always manage some way to toss in a personal insult, like the above, "You're stupid. Besides, my appreciation of beauty is better than yours." Oh well, someday the sun will shine. ------------------------------------------------- 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/
