[MD] The Art of Philosophy

[MarshaV]

dmb,

Nice paper.  What do you think of this quote? 

"We have art so that we may not perish by the truth."
         (Friedrich Nietzsche)


Marsha


On Oct 8, 2012, at 9:15 AM, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> Is Philosophy better than Art?
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> If you believe Plato, then the answer is “yes”. If all of philosophy is a footnote to Plato, then the artists have been subordinated to the philosophers for about 25 centuries. According to Plato’s Republic, especially the last section, the artists present a danger to society and to your soul. Two of my favorite thinkers disagree with Plato and Socrates on this point. Friedrich Nietzsche and Robert Pirsig both make a case that there is something terribly wrong with this Platonic legacy. In one of Nietzsche’s earliest works, The Birth of Tragedy, he asks us to consider the consequences of the Socratic idea that virtue is knowledge, that all sins arise from ignorance, and only the virtuous are happy. As a consequence, Nietzsche says, the “virtuous hero must henceforth be a dialectician” because virtue and knowledge are necessarily connected such that “Truth” is the highest good.
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> Snip