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Is philosophy an art?

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Posted 10/13/09 - 06:52 PM:	#11
Philosophy is one of the humanities, and the humanities are hybrid disciplines that combine the arts and the sciences. As such, it should be unsurprising that certain forms of philosophy, or philosophy done in a particular way, would have a distinctly artistic feel to it. Art is half of the discipline to begin with.
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Posted 10/13/09 - 11:38 PM:	#12
Philosophy may be considered Art should it contemplate for expressing, not reasoning. If you express your thoughts, it might be termed 'art' - if not, it's study.
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Posted 10/17/09 - 05:22 AM:	#13
Logico wrote: Is philosophy an art? No. Art is more subjective, and more sensual.

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Posted 11/01/09 - 07:14 AM:	#14
Logico wrote: What exactly is this difference between art and science, and where does philosophy fit in? I have yet not stumbled upon a single empirical phenomenon with an exact border. Seriously, nothing. Not even a simple concept like "chair" have got precise delimitations; there are chairs, and also armchairs, and from here we can easily jump to divans, and from divans it is a small step to sofas - and suddenly we're outside the border of the term "chair", even though we can't say exactly where we crossed it. Same goes for "art" or "science". Especially for "art" (that's the point of much twentieth century art). So I don't think you will ever get a universally satisfying answer to your question. this is because it is easy to find a context where a philosophical occurrence also can be called artistic (Nietzsche has alredy been mentioned in this thread), or where an artistic event also can be called scientific (a documentation and presentation of the everyday life of Indigenous peoples from various places of the world). But at the same time there are lots of artistic works that definately have very little in common with science (Yoko Ono's music for instance). And on the whole, if you call it art or science or philosophy doesn't affect the quality of niether the work or the criticism of it. It should not affect it anyways. In other words, in the same way as a divan can be called both a sort of chair and a sort of sofa (various divans can be said to be more or less chairlike or sofalike), philosophy can be said to be both a sort of art and a sort of science (various philosophers can be said to be more or less artistic or scientific), but what you call it won't effect the usage of it, and the search for an absolute borderline seems rather pointless. Edited by I kind of like boxes on 11/05/09 - 10:31 AM
"Cardboard box" is a misnomer, as what most people know as cardboard boxes are actually made of corrugated fiberboard, not cardboard.

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Posted 11/08/09 - 03:33 PM:	#15
Invictus_88 wrote: No. Art is more subjective, and more sensual. Is having your own personal philosophy anymore or less subjective than creating a piece of art yet experiencing or living a philosophy with sensual qualities??

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0 of 1 people found this post helpful Posted 11/09/09 - 05:39 AM:	#16
It is close to useless intellectual curiosity, but I would say it is art.

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1 of 1 people found this post helpful Posted 11/09/09 - 09:24 AM:	#17
It's not art when I do it. It's just pedantic drudgery. But it's art when a brilliant philosopher does it.

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