Philosophy of the Arts and Philosophy in the Arts

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When Is Art, Art, And When Is Art, Nonsense.

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Art Forms - Relations to Space and Time

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All Day I Hear- James Joyce

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what is beauty?

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good art and bad art?

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Poetry's Defense

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What is Art?

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How is Love related Beauty ?

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Is Art Beautiful?

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Do you agree with this distinction between art and science?

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Imagine

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Is Language Art?

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Women in Bikinis - Size 6 vs Size 12

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Conceptual art: an oxymoron?

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Art, Ed Sheeran and the rest

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Personal art appreciation

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Expensive Metaphors

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Nietzsche's positive evaluation of illusion

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Analysis: Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey

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Colors for representing the Apollonian and Dionysian

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A Brief History of Reading

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How have books been a big influence in your life?

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Greeks' Techne and our sense of Technology

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Entertainment with or without literary lessons?

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What makes art Good

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Why do we respect a sportsperson?

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Is art important?

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Emotion or Reason?

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Philosophical Films

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Artists having the freedom art?

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The Philosophical Implications Of A Bygone Video Game

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So, you are an artist... What is the difference?

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The tragic hero and Hamlet

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Do you need imagination to make art?

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by Philosophy Explorer » October 3rd, 2014, 6:17 pm

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A Philosophy on Music Education

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Disinterestedness

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Learning French

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Comparing aesthetics in music experience

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Does Realism in art always end with a society falling?

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by Mikel » July 9th, 2015, 9:34 pm
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A critical essay

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Are Video Games art?

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Where have all the grownups gone?

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by Duckrabbit » January 11th, 2016, 10:36 pm

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Is rap art?

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What songs inspire you philosophically?

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Entertainment & Comedy: What is the purpose and result?

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Does Pornography Qualify as Art?

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The Forth Dimensional Film Hypothesis

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The role of the spectator

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Dexter: A Man Of The People And/Or Of Himself

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Country music, is it OK?

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