On Medium: How Artists and Scientists Both See Through the World
Read on about a comparison of artistic vision and scientific objectification that could help reconcile the two sides in the academic culture war, the arts and sciences.
I like to think of the arts and sciences as, respectively, distraction by fantasy and distraction by precision.
They appeared for pragmatic reasons, but also to channel the excesses of human self-consciousness in specific directions
Philosophy, on the other hand, emerged as the purest expression of self-awareness/emergence of the complex human intelligence, as the opposite of distraction, since then as a quasi-side effect, dealing with truths that are beyond our comfort and/or adaptive zones, beyond pragmatism and distraction.
Science, as practical and useful as it has been, has contributed extensively to the maintenance and improvement of our artificial worlds and therefore also our systems of illusions/deceptions, together with the academic pseudo-philosophy, which manifests itself as a distraction by the word.
I like to think of the arts and sciences as, respectively, distraction by fantasy and distraction by precision.
ReplyDeleteThey appeared for pragmatic reasons, but also to channel the excesses of human self-consciousness in specific directions
Philosophy, on the other hand, emerged as the purest expression of self-awareness/emergence of the complex human intelligence, as the opposite of distraction, since then as a quasi-side effect, dealing with truths that are beyond our comfort and/or adaptive zones, beyond pragmatism and distraction.
Science, as practical and useful as it has been, has contributed extensively to the maintenance and improvement of our artificial worlds and therefore also our systems of illusions/deceptions, together with the academic pseudo-philosophy, which manifests itself as a distraction by the word.