[MD] Intellect Worship

[John Carl]

Here's another quibble for you.  Art is intellectual.   The best argument I
can offer for this view is Leonard Shlain's Art and Physics.   There's a
certain kind of intellect which "thinks" its just all that, all this, but
it's fooling itself.
I don't think intellect is bad, it just needs to be kept in its proper place
and relation to the whole.

John

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:

> Steve,
>
> Perhaps. But we also should not demonize nor vilify "intellect", as would
> be the motive of anti-intellectualism. The way I see it is intellect *is*
> atop the moral hierarchy and *should* be responded to as such. But, as you
> say, this must also occur within a framework that places the "code of art"
> (Pirsig's speculation about what "level" would be above intellect) above
> intellect, and all with an eye towards the undifferentiated aesthetic
> continuum (my words) of Quality.
>
> In other words, raging against "intellect" is as low quality as the drive
> to encapture everything in "logic" or "reason".
>
> Arlo
>
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