Community Center Class- Philosophy 101- Thursday evening

[fates_jaye]

"Today's class is inspired by the fact that I looked at an influencer's Instagram for four seconds and got annoyed," Jaye began when everyone got there. "So, welcome to the class on aesthetics. Now, that's derived from Greek, from terms meaning thinking and perception, the branch of philosophy is about beauty and taste, and now it's kind of used as a term to describe what your grid looks like, which bothers me on principle.

"And I could go into the whole of who thought what about this and the universal signatures in human aesthetics, but last week I got the impression you all cared less about that and more wanted to talk about it," she went on. "Know that this applies to everything: art, landscapes, people, writing, math... seriously, people include math in this. Let's not talk about math, though, because I don't want to."

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Discussion question #2

[fates_jaye]

"In the last century philosophers started questioning author's intent. Meaning, the author or artist created this thing with some intent. Does that matter more than whatever you get out of it when you view it?"

Re: Discussion question #2

[mother_forker]

"Well, that's like someone making a bad movie that everyone hates but the director loved," Eleanor replied. "Unless it's a really bad movie that's so bad that everyone loves the badness of it. Like Petey something something movie something."

Re: Discussion question #2

[fates_jaye]

"Well, yeah," Jaye said. "But does what the director wanted matter once it's out there?"

Re: Discussion question #2

[mother_forker]

"I don't know," Eleanor said with the shrug. "He's got money in his pocket. At some point it's not his thing anymore."