Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Class where 2 questions...

What part of art is expression of feelings? Is the self which is express through art wholely emotional? What other aspects of the self are experessed through art? What then dow we conclude to the self? waht is non self? whichis is lager self or non self?

*Clear idea on PACS
*Do you believe that al human activities can be fully deserted and understood through some combination of PACS?

I feel that everything about art is some form of experssion. Art would not be here if we did not express ourselves. The self is not whooly emotional because some of our movement and actions are unconciously done. Maybe I dont understand what self is complely to fully answer this question what what other aspects...? My understanding of the self is that it had to do with someones lobido and where it is als a persons internal state. Same goes for the other questions following.

*No, No Philosophy is a term that I am really sturggling with in how to link them to ACS. But otherwise I do understand the others or the gist of the atleast.

What is the self?
Like I said I am not sure I completly know what the self is ... Something about the persons internal drive to do something?
I am assuming both until further exxplainiton of sel I dont think it would be wise for me to define self.

1 comment:

M E Achtermann said...

Before some of these other questions about philosophy art craft science can be answered, some sense of the nature of the self would be useful.

There are two basic views of the self. The first is that it exists, and the second is that it does not.

That's simple enough. Those who argue that the self does not exist propose something on the lines that the self APPEARS to exist because life is different than death and living things then have "something" that distinguishes them from corpses: this something is called "the self". Another way of thinking of the self is that it is the synergy of the thoughts, emotions, feelings, and body. But this "whole greater than the sum of its parts" notion does not, finally, indicate a necessary EXISTENCE of a "self" or "soul".

The other view, that the self exists, generally does not propose that the self has a physical nature; instead, the idea is proposed that a "spiritual" nature exists simultaneously with the physical nature we observe through the senses. The "spiritual" world or nature may have rules analogous to those of the physical world, but not identical, and in the spiritual world time and space, the two basic conditions of physical being, do not have the same values, or simply do not exist.

From a standpoint of parsimony, the idea of the real existence of a self is difficult. It seems as though the problems of the nature of individual experience might be solved without appeal to an unprovable, unproven "spiritual" existence.

On the other hand, how does one go about explaining the experience of thoughts, emotions, and feelings, and continuity of memory, hopes, dreams, plans, etc. without a self that thinks, feels, remembers, hopes, and so on?

Internal drives, especially those which are notably individual or unique, are certainly part of what is traditionally viewed as the self, and ART, it seems to me, is largely about drives -- expressing them, channelling them, using them...

But of course drives are only part of the internal world of the "self".