FlyingLionWithABook
Has a C. S. Lewis quote for that.
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FlyingLionWithABook
Has a C. S. Lewis quote for that.
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Scott treats "sensory pleasure" as essentially an unexamined, irreducible primitive, the bedrock of certainty that would be left over once one has abstracted away everything "extraneous": as though it were simply obvious to oneself when one finds an artwork to be "pleasant" or "beautiful" in the first place, as though it would be impossible or undesirable to call these modes of experience into question, to become unsure of and estranged from one's own perceptual experience.
Yes Chad. It is indeed simply obvious when you find a piece of art to be pleasant or beautiful. When I visit an art museum, I look at the art, and I am immediately struck by beauty. Some pieces literally take my breath away when I see them: I gasp and stare at it slack-jawed. It would be undesirable and unnatural to try to change yourself so that you find beautiful things ugly, and ugly things beautiful. Some things deserve a reaction of awe and delight, and some things deserve a reaction of disgust and repellence, and if you don’t have that reaction something is wrong with you, the same way something is wrong with a man who is tone death or color blind.
How will a teenager be benefited from Novus Angelus? Klee may have been a great artist, but did he use his talents to create something helpful or harmful to his fellow man in this case? Fritz Haber was a brilliant and accomplished scientist, but that doesn’t mean his work creating chemical weapons wasn’t evil.
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