Close to what, the shadow? Are we in Plato's Cave? Shadows, spirits, things that go bump, slipping glimpses, all manner of ghosts and demons sprinting to and fro. Aesthetics is a habit of mind not nature, not truth. Truth has no values, it is only a quantified substance or meaningless state of being. When we use (regard it) it we value it and then truth is a matter of our choices and our values and it's then that the aesthetic can be applied. wc
----- Original Message ---- From: ARMANDO BAEZA <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, May 3, 2010 6:39:33 PM Subject: Re: "You must learn to choose the truth before aesthetic preferences". (Auden) As I sense it, aesthetics is never the exact shadow of truth, close,maybe mando ________________________________ From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, May 3, 2010 4:05:34 PM Subject: "You must learn to choose the truth before aesthetic preferences". (Auden) Does that mean that a work of art should never distort or obscure reality?
