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What is "high art"?
Yes, the distinction between "high" art and "low" art is largely about what is sanctioned by the upper class.
"High" art does often have certain positive qualities:
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What is "high art"?
Think the old Greek distinction between 'artist' and 'artisan'. An artist produces a purely creative endeavor meant to invoke some ideal of beauty; an artisan produces practical goods that may have ...
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What is "high art"?
The distinction between pop art and high art (or high culture) was pursued among others by art critic Hilton Kramer. Kramer started out as an art editor for the New York Times but was led to ...
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Is everyone's sense of power always predicated on diminishing that of someone else's?
Dimishing the power of another only yields power for the diminisher in the fashion of looking thinner by hanging out with fatter people.
Power belongs to the individual, and it is amassed independent ...
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Is everyone's sense of power always predicated on diminishing that of someone else's?
the enlightened pursuit of ones own happiness coincides with the
happiness of the community as a whole...[not a] zero sum game
Thanks for the phrase.
Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography - ...
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Is everyone's sense of power always predicated on diminishing that of someone else's?
I begin by distinguishing the two conceptions of power at play in Nietzsche’s
arguments, power as quantitative superiority of ability and as qualitative feeling
of power (das Gefühl der Macht), an ...
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Is everyone's sense of power always predicated on diminishing that of someone else's?
In regards to Nietzsche, so if you approach the question about the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche within the context of will to power, AND if one is working with a psychological interpretation of ...
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