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the will (wants, affects destiny, inspiration, it conserves and maintains, goes into denial)
the imagination (projects the truth and envisions how it can go further, part of the becoming issue, projects memory forward, spiritual presence)
the intellect (knows truth, contemplates that which is, all about reality)
the memory (relatively most simple, storehouse) |
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| Which component of the mind concerns ART? |
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| which component of the mind DOES NOT concern art? |
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| the will: will is concerned with prudence |
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| how do left and right brain differ? |
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LEFT: analytical
RIGHT: intuitive |
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| why is "Things" so important? |
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| it is so inclusive--it includes all |
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| a condition that develops, acquired permanent condition that perfects a thing in line of itself |
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| a habit raised to optimum efficiency and perfection |
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| strength, health, and beauty |
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| what did Aristotle contribute to the function of the intellect? |
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he divided the intellect:
speculative and practical (they are separated by ACTION), practical is concerned with action
speculative order: wisdom and truth |
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| how did the Greeks divide works of art? |
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corporal (body, 3D, sculpture, architecture, etc.)
liberal (mind, mathematics, etc.) |
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| how do we divide contemporary works of art? |
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useful (functional)
decorative (functional works ornamented; weaponry)
fine (objects made for the food of themselves as objects of contemplation |
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| what is the object of art? |
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| what is everything to art? |
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| what is the activity of art? |
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| impressing an idea upon matter |
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| does the virtue of art always let the artist know what he intends to make? |
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| what did Plato emphasize in relation to the intellect? |
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| skill in relationship to art |
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| skill helps accomplish a task, it’s the ability of the technique |
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| homo sapien (sapiens=to savor, to taste) |
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| how are neurotic and existential anxiety related? |
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| having a little bit of neurotic anxiety is existential |
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| 3 things to escape the unfamiliar? |
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| resistance, distraction, and inertia |
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| how did we translate “intellect”? |
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| reading between the lines: intel-lectus |
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| Latin contemplum=with space, becoming one with space, unites being and existence in the mind in time and space, unites existential reality (time and space) with being; you unite yourself to space and time, become one with it |
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1-the thing that makes the thing the thing which it is (instead of something else, savoring capacity is what makes us what we are—that’s our form: not our height/weight, etc.)
2-always in the process of becoming
3-adds spirit to matter (spiritual phase is simple reality of bringing out something like bringing out a diamond from the earth) spirit means breath |
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| why are all men in bondage and why is all art flawed? |
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| that which is in time and space |
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1-a virtue of the practical intellect
2-the right making of the thing to be made
3-the idea preceding things creating them |
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| why is ratio (Latin) more accurate than making? |
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| RATIO has to do with reason ad MAKING has to do with labor. Ratio deals with the determination of what's rightly made (relates to second definition of art) |
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| relates to the fall and letting go, accept things as the flow of the fall, UNDERSTANDING--stand under: willingness to now know and still go on |
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| doing something wrong and not knowing you're doing something wrong |
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| doing something wrong and knowing you're doing something wrong (this is acceptable in art) |
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| relationship between art and prudence? |
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| virtues of the practical intellect, prudence is also concerned with the will, prudence is virtue of both, art isn’t concerned with will (no ethics in art) |
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| why is work of art not about self expression? |
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| Artist doesn’t necessarily know what they will make, self-expression places work of art in the will and art isn’t interested in the will |
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| what’s relation of art to culture? |
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| Art creates culture, culture should not tie down art-culture maintains art |
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| letting go for the chance of discovery, prepares you for what is to come, it's about letting go of old rules and customs ad what we're used to and being open and accepting, it is a part of life, trusting the intuition relates to the fall |
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| secret life of the intellect |
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| process is unknown to us; we don’t know why certain things come to us, when doing something sometimes we try to get away from what we’re thinking→it becomes surprising how much we already knew and how things work the way we expected them to work (ex: painting and not looking), all fears and thoughts evaporate |
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| how do we experience truth in reality? |
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| most intellectual virtue? |
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| art because art is only concerned with the intellect and no other areas of the mind |
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| impressing an idea upon matter |
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| why do all things tend towards mediocrity? |
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| It’s safe, we choose the familiar rather than new; the fall can come into play here |
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| what two things must we pursue to realize our form by making and contemplating? |
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| what’s the tendency of artwork that has gained popular acceptance? |
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| what level of consciousness is intuition associated? |
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| what are the levels of consciousness? |
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Unconscious (repressed conscious, anything done in preconscious mind can be done in unconscious mind)
Conscious (linear, left brain, mind that is thinking, has language)
Subconscious (knows something is too good to be true, suspicious intuitive (right side), part of the memory of thought
Preconscious (intuition, right brain, still intellectual, not part of thought or memory, part of inkling you get, nonverbal, secret life, repressed and can't bring to consciousness, sometimes from dreams) |
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| what are binary opposites? |
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| 2 opposites: right/left, up/down, etc. one is always better or more preferred to another |
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| refusal to accept truth, ultimately the tragic flaw is always denial of something, leads to illusion, refusal to accept what the intellect knows to be truth, this inspires the intellect to seek the truth but obscures it as well |
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| intellectual power where you grasp what is right and know how to function with it without thinking of it (ex: Michael Phelps not thinking about it but still winning), reliance of intuition to come out at the last minute without having to think it out because you don’t have time!! (no time to think in the last .001 seconds of a race), every has intuition, some people trust it more than others, allows you to “soar” |
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| tendency to refrain from doing things that put you in a seemingly unhandle-able conflict, you avoid it, can’t really face reality, being existential and existing in time and space you’re going to be anxious about life and death and about condemnation and retribution, etc.; this is normal existential anxiety→to avoid it, we flee to neurotic things to coexist with yourself, a little bit of neurotic anxiety is existential |
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| when you take things in the existential order (something from time and space), enter into space for the cosmic relationship with space and become one with the space that you are contemplating, one with the cosmic order→intuitive realm of knowing something’s raising you to the level of taste and wisdom by experiencing it by the senses |
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| with space, becoming one with space |
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| what does Aristotle emphasize? |
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| not only knowing truth but it going into action or the operative |
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| what does Plato emphasize? |
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| the idea or the ideal, only saw knowing truth as virtue of mind |
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| humankind can't stand much reality so they tend towards |
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| object of art, mindful action, intellectual |
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| mindless, Coom would call it servile |
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| experience of seeing things in a certain way uplifts you and you feel better because you’ve experienced it (contemplative savoring act) |
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| problems with popular art |
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| tends toward mediocrity because it has to please most people |
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| transcendentals (1,2,3,4) |
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1: BEING: oneness, about unity
2: EXISTENCE/DUALITY: time and space, binary opposites
3: FORM/BECOMING: ongoing, suggests motion, form is because of becoming
4: RECOMING: cycle repeats, related to still point |
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| as the world revolves around its core, it still takes 24 hrs to make a revolution so it slows down |
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