What Is Art? What Is It For? An Inquiry

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-My thanks for (past and future) rating and reviewing! -Art vs. Craft -The spectrum of creativity -Craft as all making, not rote production -The Romantic fallacy of art without craft -The case to abolish "art." -Utilitarian vs. Rhetorical craft -Horace's "Dulce Et Utile" -The secret third thing that Horatio had not dreamt of in his philosophy -The three functions of art -The Hedonic function ;) -Sensory, Cognitive, Emotional Pleasure -Let me teach you about the Noetic function. -Insight vs. Sensitization -What do YOU think of the Dialectical function? -Functional symbiosis -Individual functions in excess and isolation -A rubric for artistic evaluation -Collectivist Art (for us!) -Individualist Art (for me!) -Humanist Art (for the universal spirit of humankind!)

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