Tuesday, August 30, 2016
(2) Thur. 9/1 • An Ancient Quarrel between Art and Philosophy (i.e. Rationality)
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Your first assignment, for class on Thursday is Book X of Plato's Republic Please visit link below and enjoy!
Your new teacher and learning partner, Justin Vood Good
In Plato’s still radical book THE REPUBLIC (circa 360 BCE), the first work of systematic political science and one of the greatest works of philosophy every conceived, Plato offers a powerful critique of the arts that still holds sway over popular cultural and institutional beliefs about art and the artistic life. In fact, Plato offers a challenge to all future artists in that argument, to justify themselves as a form of human culture. A contemporary artist struggling to make sense of the value of her creativity would benefit by trying to articulate a response to the most incessant and powerful of all dead white males.
Assignment for this class:
1. Read: Book X of Plato's Republic. In this very famous conversation between the characters of Socrates and Glaucon in Book X, Socrates (speaking for Plato) states his case against art. The reading is challenging, so go slow. You'll have to read it several times.
2. Write: In your journal, after you take your regular one page of notes on the reading assignment, I would like you to write an additional one paragraph (min) response to the following question:
Is there a fundamental difference (or set of differences) in the ways that ART understands and expresses TRUTH, verses the ways that SCIENCE does? If so, what are those differences?
Your first assignment, for class on Thursday is Book X of Plato's Republic Please visit link below and enjoy!
Your new teacher and learning partner, Justin Vood Good
In Plato’s still radical book THE REPUBLIC (circa 360 BCE), the first work of systematic political science and one of the greatest works of philosophy every conceived, Plato offers a powerful critique of the arts that still holds sway over popular cultural and institutional beliefs about art and the artistic life. In fact, Plato offers a challenge to all future artists in that argument, to justify themselves as a form of human culture. A contemporary artist struggling to make sense of the value of her creativity would benefit by trying to articulate a response to the most incessant and powerful of all dead white males.
Assignment for this class:
1. Read: Book X of Plato's Republic. In this very famous conversation between the characters of Socrates and Glaucon in Book X, Socrates (speaking for Plato) states his case against art. The reading is challenging, so go slow. You'll have to read it several times.
2. Write: In your journal, after you take your regular one page of notes on the reading assignment, I would like you to write an additional one paragraph (min) response to the following question:
Is there a fundamental difference (or set of differences) in the ways that ART understands and expresses TRUTH, verses the ways that SCIENCE does? If so, what are those differences?
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