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Comparative Eastern and Western Aesthetics

2021-09-13T16:05:26+03:00By Metin Bobaroğlu|Categories: Transcripts|Tags: aesthetic judgments, Aesthetics, Ancient Greece, art, Chronos, contemplation, Dialogos, esoteric, mathematos, music, mysticism, mystics, mythologia, nomos, philosophy, plastic arts, poetry, science of art, Systematic Philosophy, theater, wisdom|

The Distinction between Aesthetics and Fine Art What Did Hegel Mean When He Said “Art Is a Thing of the Past”? Evolution of Craft into Art A Work of Art Can Be Critiqued by a Critic Trained in Aesthetics The Historical Development of Systematic Philosophy Why Is It Assumed That Philosophy First Began in Greece? Philosophy Is an Evolution from Mythos to Logos The Relationship between Imagination and Art There Can Be No Ethics Without Aesthetics! The Distinction between Aesthetics and Fine Art People confuse [...]

About Art

2020-11-08T19:41:15+03:00By Metin Bobaroğlu|Categories: Essays|Tags: art, Classical art, Duchamp, enlightenment, Hegel, Kemal Atatürk, Modern art, modernity, Ortega, philosophy, poetry, Romantic art, Socrates, Symbolic art, Tarkovsky, Umberto Eco|

Modern civilization is built on four foundations: Sports, Science, Art, and Philosophy. Sports deals with the discipline of movement, Science with concepts and terminology specific to science, Art with images, and Philosophy with concepts. Artistic endeavor has existed in all cultures since the earliest periods in history, but art gained self-consciousness in Ancient Greece. This was no accident because Ancient Greece was also where people gained consciousness of philosophy, or of their own thoughts. Andrey Tarkovski “Art emerges and develops where there is a yearning for the ideal,” says A. Tarkovsky, and adds, “Art is a symbol of this [...]

2020-11-08T19:26:14+03:00By Metin Bobaroğlu|Categories: Essays|Tags: aesthetic, art, common essence, consciousness, Socrates, sophia, Tarkovsky, temple of humanity, uniqueness, wisdom|

“Art emerges and develops where there is a yearning for the ideal,” says A. Tarkovsky, and adds, “Art is a symbol of this world that is intertwined with the spiritual reality hidden from us by a utilitarian practice.” Even though the idea is a highly controversial concept, the idea in terms of art represents, at its most basic, “unity” and “integrity.” It expresses the “common essence” or “common form” that holds what is different together. The work of art is at one with its essence; it is unique and original. Artistic endeavor is found in all cultures, from the earliest periods [...]

On the Science of Art

2020-07-18T18:40:15+03:00By Metin Bobaroğlu|Categories: Transcripts|Tags: Aristotelian logic, Aristotle, art, consciousness, freedom, Imagination, Intellectual phenomena, logic, ontology, phenomena, philosophy, Reality, science|

Until Immanuel Kant –with the possible exception of Aristotle in antiquity– art was mostly described as an awe-inspiring product of imagination that bypasses the reason, and treated this way in the literature. After Kant, however, Hegel in particular said –along with his criticism of Kant– “No, art is not merely a product of our imagination.” Imagination can create certain products by taking inputs from the objects in the outside world and processing them in a cinematographic manner –as in dreams– but we also use our reason, the faculty said to be bypassed in this whole process, to make judgments [...]

The Problem of Communication

2020-07-16T00:36:54+03:00By Metin Bobaroğlu|Categories: Essays|Tags: alienation, art, Communication, consciousness, Existence, globalization, Language, Love, peace, philosophy, religion, spirituality, spiritualization, wisdom|

As is well known, communication is a relationship in which messages are conveyed between two sources. If the messages flow only in one direction, no communication takes place. Feedback is a must for communication. Today, the word “communication” has mostly technological connotations. When we hear the word communication, we think of radio, television, newspapers, phones, computers, the Internet, and the like, and this technological dimension means that information can today flow between countries, nations and individuals in an unrestrained way, crossing borders freely. Communication provides the infrastructure for interaction, but is commonly used in a sense that covers interaction [...]