34 ideas
8220 | Philosophy is in a perpetual state of digression [Deleuze/Guattari] |
8217 | Philosophy is a concept-creating discipline [Deleuze/Guattari] |
8242 | Philosophy aims at what is interesting, remarkable or important - not at knowledge or truth [Deleuze/Guattari] |
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
8223 | The plague of philosophy is those who criticise without creating, and defend dead concepts [Deleuze/Guattari] |
8247 | Phenomenology needs art as logic needs science [Deleuze/Guattari] |
8224 | 'Eris' is the divinity of conflict, the opposite of Philia, the god of friendship [Deleuze/Guattari] |
8219 | Logic has an infantile idea of philosophy [Deleuze/Guattari] |
8246 | Logic hates philosophy, and wishes to supplant it [Deleuze/Guattari] |
8221 | We cannot judge the Cogito. Must we begin? Must we start from certainty? Can 'I' relate to thought? [Deleuze/Guattari] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |
8222 | Concepts are superior because they make us more aware, and change our thinking [Deleuze/Guattari] |
8218 | Other people completely revise our perceptions, because they are possible worlds [Deleuze/Guattari] |
8248 | Phenomenology says thought is part of the world [Deleuze/Guattari] |
8245 | The logical attitude tries to turn concepts into functions, when they are really forms or forces [Deleuze/Guattari] |
23928 | Good art produces exaltation and detachment [Bell,C] |
23922 | The word 'beauty' leads to confusion, because it denotes distinct emotions [Bell,C] |
23921 | Our feeling for natural beauty is different from the aesthetic emotion of art [Bell,C] |
23929 | We only see landscapes as artistic if we ignore their instrumental value [Bell,C] |
23923 | Visual form can create a sublime mental state [Bell,C] |
23932 | Art is the expression of an emotion for ultimate reality [Bell,C] |
23927 | Aestheticism invites artist to create beauty, but with no indication of how to do it [Bell,C] |
8115 | Only artists can discern significant form; other people must look to art to find it [Bell,C, by Gardner] |
23924 | Maybe significant form gives us a feeling for ultimate reality [Bell,C] |
23931 | Significant form is the essence of art, which I believe expresses an emotion about reality [Bell,C] |
20434 | 'Form' is visual relations, and it is 'significant' if it moves us aesthetically; art needs both [Bell,C, by Feagin] |
23934 | The only expression art could have is the emotion resulting from pure form [Bell,C] |
23925 | Mere copies of pictures are not significant - unless the copies are very exact [Bell,C] |
23926 | Art is distinguished by its aesthetic emotion, which produces appropriate form [Bell,C] |
23933 | Aesthetic contemplation is the best and most intense mental state [Bell,C] |
23935 | Aesthetic experience is an exaltation which increases the possibilities of life [Bell,C] |
22691 | Only artistic qualities matter in art, because they also have the highest moral value [Bell,C] |
8243 | Atheism is the philosopher's serenity, and philosophy's achievement [Deleuze/Guattari] |
23930 | Religion sees infinite value in some things, and irrelevance in the rest [Bell,C] |