isn’t art; to break down art to its core essence. Critical significance: Thesis is to be exploratory‚ challenging existing ideas and theories with possibilities of the alternative. Looking at the classical definitions of art that Kant and Schopenhauer have come up with‚ and explore how these definitions permit or disallow the moving image to be considered art‚ and why this is so. Themes and Context: Time period covered – Surrealist movement up till present day Social/political/cultural
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From the earliest civilizations arose an innate desire to survive in any given environment. Those that chose to fight death’s henchmen‚ famine and war‚ developed more advanced agricultural techniques and created complex social structures. The primal instinct to exist drove humanity to proliferate across the world‚ as many populations boomed‚ seemingly without bound. Throughout history‚ this fervent yearning for life was shared by the predominant masses‚ but the inevitable befell every person on earth
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Alexis Smith In a letter to his wife Alma‚ Gustav Mahler wrote‚ "There are only [Beethoven] and Richard [Wagner]- and after that nobody. Mark that!" (Comini‚390) Just as Beethoven revolutionized symphonic repertoire‚ playing a pivotal figure in the transition from classicism to romanticism‚ Wagner played a pivotal role in revolutionizing opera‚ taking it from a frivolous and ridiculous source of entertainment to a constantly evolving art-form which adopted an almost religious following. Beethoven
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Alan Watts FAMOUS AS: Philosopher‚ Writer & Speaker BORN ON: 06 January 1915 BORN IN: Chislehurst‚ Kent‚ England DIED ON: 16 November 1973 NATIONALITY: United Kingdom WORKS & ACHIEVEMENTS: Popular philosopher known for his Eastern philosophy and Zen teachings‚ Wrote famous books like The Way of Zen (1957)‚ Psychotherapy East and West (1961)‚ The New Alchemy (1958) and The Joyous Cosmology (1962). Alan Watts or Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher‚ writer‚ and speaker who
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Good morning teacher and students Arthur Schopenhauer once said “every men take the limit of his own field of vision for the limits of world “a vision is the best path way to understand culture. And today I will be talking about Australian vision through Douglas Stewart’s “eyes” .Australian vision are a reflection is Australian beliefs‚ value‚ and perceptions. In Mr. Stewart’s poems explore concepts of Australian’s egalitarianism‚ Australia flora and fauna‚ Aussie battler. The poems clearly present
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Yinka Jackson PHI2010785622 1) Explain and evaluate Rene Descartes argument for knowledge including the role of skepticism‚ the evil demon‚ and god in resolving his doubts. Descartes’s believed he could doubt everything that could be doubted‚ and the remainder was be the absolute certain. He utilized skepticism as a means to achieve certainty. To doubt every proposition he utilized the dream and evil demon conjectures. It was questionable whether he was dreaming‚ or was it actually realty
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animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality”. (Arthur Schopenhauer‚ the Basis of Morality). Although animal testing has contributed too many life saving cures and treatments‚ it is cruel and most experiments involving animals are flawed. In my opinion testing of these products should be used on the people that
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Nicole Knox-Vilchez Professor Pamela St. Clair English 101 Essay 2 1 November 2014 “The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom” a quote by Arthur Schopenhauer. How many times a day does someone say‚ “I’m so bored”? Too many times it appears. Boredom seems to becoming more of a big deal in our culture today. Why? What has changed or made people today become more lazy and uninterested in life? Humans should be motivated and excited to be alive and health‚ and willing to learn new things
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Swami Vivekananda Swami Vivekananda‚ his earlier name was Narendranatha Dutta was born on 12th january 1863‚ the auspicious day of Makarasankranthi. His father‚ Viswanatha Dutta was a lawyer. Mother Bhuvaneshwari Devi considered her son as a gift of the Lord Shiva. From the childhood days itself he has a deep desire to help others. As Naren grew‚ his sharp intellect and spirit of inquiry began to raise many doubts about the existence of God. The meeting with Sree Ramakrishna changed Naren’s
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translates these words of the guard as: ‘You are at play; we work for you; you are‚ ultimately‚ winners.’ These words are also echoed at the end of the film. How appropriate are they? 11. Guido’s friend Ferruccio summarises the philosophy of Schopenhauer as‚ ‘I am what I want to be.’ Does Guido really think he can influence events? Why do you think Guido creates reality as he wants it to be in the concentration camp? 12. Many of us may not experience the same depth of inhuman treatment as Guido
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