43 sats \ 4 replies \ @Scoresby 4 Apr \ parent \ on: What Is Art For ? FiresidePhilosophy
How much art did they make?
If we consider writing as an art, there were many. Whether they made other types of art, I don't know.
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It's interesting to think about philosophy as art. Does the Nicomachean Ethics have artistry?
Probably a lot of it is changed by translation (I certainly don't read Greek). So are we even experiencing Aristotle's artistry - or the translator's?
But this gets to the bigger point: what part of human life is art and what is not?
If a cashier makes change for me - not art.
If they do it with flair - art?
Art is distinct from the other stuff we do in that it is somehow beautiful.
A landscape is beautiful but not art until you paint it or describe it or photograph it.
What if the cashier making change without flair was actually the true artistry?
I guess art is intentional too.
Probably there is only fuzziness when we look too closely at the boundaries of art.
But I think this is a good taglong question for the one you pose in the OP:
What isn't art?
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You raise some good points. In a broader sense, I would say that anything that involves creation can be considered art. But that's a highly debatable topic. We can talk about the art of cooking, the art of sewing, the art of writing poetry, and so on. Now I have more doubts than I did an hour ago. :)