{"id":15653,"date":"2014-01-20T11:24:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T17:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catholiconnection.com\/?p=15653"},"modified":"2014-01-20T11:24:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T17:24:51","slug":"famous-art-comes-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/famous-art-comes-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Art Comes Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"B E A U T Y - dir. Rino Stefano Tagliafierro (SHORT VERSION)\" width=\"1020\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EEfXg1JUYu0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today<\/strong> order (which for Aristotle is basically a synonym for beauty) is often condemned as a product of our \u2018conspiracy theory perception\u2019 (1) and not actually part of the object, leaving it with no natural significance. Many of the moderns believed after recent psychological advances that they were \u2018up one\u2019 on primitive Aristotle as though this \u2018intrinsic finality illusion\u2019 could not be something he would have seen.<\/p>\n<p>But Aristotle was he was keenly aware of the idea that purpose can be extrinsic to the object.\u00a0For him there are natural objects and there are artifacts (2). Artifacts have order imposed on them by us (like desks, paintings and skyscrapers) and they imitate natural objects which somehow contain order already within them. If they did not contain order, there would be no sense in anything we perceive.<\/p>\n<p>Scientific reductionists (those who think order even in nature is created by our mind and really everything is just reducible to small particles acting coincidentally) and <em>some<\/em> modern artists alike cannot accept that order and beauty exist outside the perceiver (exist objectively), and yet they relish in and depend on it for their very scientific operation. Much more could be said about this but I won&#8217;t ruin the above! (3)<\/p>\n<p>What a fine artifact!<\/p>\n<h6>Footnotes:<\/h6>\n<h6>(1)\u00a0Rosenberg says, \u201cThis drive to force events into the mold of a story with a plot [purpose] is a hangover from our evolutionary past&#8230;mother nature selected for conspiracy theorists&#8230;and built our minds for other purposes than understanding reality (survival).\u201d Atheists Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions, pg. 13<\/h6>\n<h6>(2) &#8220;Artifacts are objects first conceived in the mind, then physical parts are put together to serve a purpose endowed by our minds.&#8221; Aristotle. <i>History of Animals<\/i>. 491A. 642A.<\/h6>\n<h6>(3) Book Recommendation:\u00a0Gilson states in regard to this nature vs. artifact confusion: \u201cIt is fair to claim that the notion of final cause was inspired by the example of the artistic activity of an artisan \u201cbut it is not the case that mechanism lay the foundation for reproaching finalism with its anthropomorphic character. Bergson, Henri, L\u2019 \u00c9volution cr\u00e9atrice, \u201cIntroduction\u201d, pp. 490-91<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today order (which for Aristotle is basically a synonym for beauty) is often condemned as a product of our \u2018conspiracy theory perception\u2019 (1) and not actually part of the object, leaving it with no natural significance. 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