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Truth is the "isness" of something; true nature of a thing |
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How are art and culture related? |
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Art forms culture; culture does not form art |
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What are Being and Existence? |
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Being is that which is; Existence is that which is in time and space |
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Why are all things shrouded in mystery? |
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Humans lack wisdom; humans can not stand much reality |
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What two human responses help us to understand, relate to, and live with reality? |
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Why is there a Secret Life of the Intellect? |
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Secret Life resides in the right side of the brain and there is a disconnect between two hemispheres. Sometimes you can know something without knowing why (intuition). |
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Savoring (and know that you are savoring) man. Sapientia means wisdom; so man also savors wisdom and is contemplating. |
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acquired permanent condition that perfects a thing in the line of itself |
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A habit raised to optimum efficiency and perfection |
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What are the four components of the mind? |
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Intellect, Imagination, Will, Memory |
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Which one of the four components of the mind concerns art? |
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Which one of the four components does not concern art? |
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Why do we use the word Thing? |
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How do we experience reality? |
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Wisdom, Prudence, and Art are? |
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Virtues. Wisdom has to do with knowing truth; Prudence has to do with doing good conduct; Art has to do with making objects. |
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What are the 3 virtues of the body? |
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Strength, health, and beauty |
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What is the most intellectual virtue? |
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Art and prudence differ by? |
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Prudence is a product of the practical intellect and the will; Art is a product of the practical intellect. |
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Aristotle talked of the function of the intellect: |
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Talked about Active Life as an operative and doing something |
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Art as an ideal form or idea. |
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What is the virtue of the soul? |
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Virtues of the intellect? |
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wisdom, prudence, and art |
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What is the object of art? |
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What is everything to art? |
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The work is everything to art |
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What is the activity of it? |
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Impressing an idea upon matter |
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Do we always know what we intend to make? |
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Two orders of the Intellect are, and how do they differ? |
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Practical and Speculative; Practical has to do with operation and Speculative has to do with theoretical |
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How is skill concerned with Art? |
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Used for the right making of the thing |
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Become one with the space being meditated in |
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That which makes the thing the thing that it is |
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Greek's division of work? |
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Useful, decorative, and fine. Useful is functional; decorative is ornamental useful; fine is made for contemplation |
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What are the levels of consciousness? |
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Preconscious, Unconscious, Subconscious, and conscious (intuition is preconscious) |
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How do we escape reality? |
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resistance, distraction, and inertia |
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Why do all things tend to mediocrity? |
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Because it is easier to go along with the accepted. |
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What are the 3 definitions of art? |
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Art is a virtue of the practical intellect; Art is the right making of the thing to be made; Art is the idea preceding things creating them. Key words for each definition: intellect, making, idea. |
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Recta ratio factibilium means? |
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the right making of the thing to be made. Ratio also means "reason". |
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The Fall is associated with risk; it means not being scared to take another step. |
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Existence, Form, Being, Recoming ordering: |
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1. being, 2. existence, 3. form, 4. recoming |
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Duality of things in nature? |
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There is always one that is right and one that is wrong. Right and Left, Up and Down, Above and Below. |
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There is no good or bad in art. |
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Why do we not worry about competitiveness in Art? |
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Because as an artist you are only concerned with the right making of the thing to be made. |
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What is Purification and Sacrifice? |
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Purification is multiple experiences that purify yourself; Sacrifice is willing to do holy work. |
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What is communion and meditation? |
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Meditation is emptying the mind of all thought; communion is becoming one with all of the cosmos |
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What is neurotic and existential anxiety? |
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Existential anxiety is anxiety because we know we are alive and won't live forever; neurotic is irrational fears |
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