[MD] Progress in art?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Krimel <Krimel at Krimel.com>:

> [Platt]
> What do you say is the criteria for establishing relative value in
> aesthetics?
> My criteria is what I see and hear.
> 
> [Krimel]
> Which is exactly why I am not interested in aesthetics and do not think that
> philosophy, science or politics should be judged by purely aesthetic
> criteria. Rather they are to be judged on a pragmatic basis, according to
> what works.

Well, you may be missing something. "The ideals which have always shone before me
and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a
goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built
on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle." -- Albert Einstein

Or, as David Gelernter said, "Strangely enough, beauty is also a truth-and-
rightness meter, and science and technology could not exist without it."

But, they could be wrong.





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