alexa:
If you do not judge, you do not think. . . nor do you analyze, discriminate good from evil, right from wrong, love from hate. You cannot judge if you have no ethics or values, nor if you embrace a philosophy that councils against judgements (an anti-mind philosophy). If you do not judge, then you are ready to become a good citizen of Orwell's 1984 world.
As to art -- it can and must be defined as there exists an intrinsic philosophy carried within this form of communication. It carries ideas. Ideas are either valid or invalid; Truth or lies.
As for Dicken's, he took reality -- the reality of his culture -- sifted it through his mind, deriving pleasure from it, and incidentally creating Truths as he saw them.
Onwards to children. When a child is taught/coerced/brainwashed to run with the pack -- when the pack supersedes the self -- when the pack is all and the individual nothing without the pack (collective) this is the epitome of evil.
BTW, I do not mock you as you wondered in post # 3191. I try to act as a navigator and show you how to steer by the Northern Star of realism, the fabled Polaris of Truth, not Vega which has passed.
Finally, if you can accept that "A" is "A" as proposed by Aristotle so many millennia ago, then you are truly on the road to salvation and great things!
But woe is the human who denies the mind in favor of illusion, denying de facta, the mind itself; for that way lies the path of the truly damned.
Father Terrence |
