G. W. F. Hegel on photography

Too true, Tom. Screw culture. Wanna fight?

 

(Please, try the veal. I'll be here all week.)

The people's willingness to fight is a defining characteristic of a culture. So don't be so quick to discount aggressive behavior.

D. Poinsett said

"There are no truths, only beliefs."

Spoken like a true freshman. I hope you have a lifetime ahead of you in which to learn the difference.

"There are no truths, only beliefs."

 

As close an approximation to reality as I've seen.

So it's an opinion that the Sun rises in the East, sets in the West, gets dark when there's no light and death when no life where life once existed? :)

 

"Hey doc!" "Is there life in this rotting corpse?" "In my opinion, that all depends on if it's a government program or not." :)

 

I just want to make sure that I understand this idea of opinion Vs truth.

Physical concepts are a creation of the human mind. Never underestimate the power of belief. It is the essence of art.

So if I understand you correctly, without the human mind, the universe ceases to exist? :)

 

Wow!

 

If that's what this thread has become, I think I'll go back to being the worst photographer on the net:)

"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, how ever it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. In our endeavor to understand reality we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch. He sees the face and the moving hands, even hears its ticking, but he has no way of opening the case. If he is ingenious he may form some picture of a mechanism which could be responsible for all the things he observes, but he may never be quite sure his picture is the only one which could explain his observations. He will never be able to compare his picture with the real mechanism and he cannot even imagine the possibility of the meaning of such a comparison."

 

Albert Einstein, 1938

Well tie a chain around my ankle and throw me overboard:)

If it helps, I walked away from this sort of nonsense back in 78.

 

Reality exists, with or without your permission.

 

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I'm glad the Hegel board is still up and running...I found this the other day and wanted to add it to the conversation.

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It comes from the preface of "Time Out of Mind, the Diaries of Leonard Micahels 1961-1995".

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Occasionally when writing about an incident it became a story, or while describing the gesture of some friend it grew into a character only vaguely like the friend, as if sentence rhythms and the myriad relations of words had a life of their own, and, like a dream, language speaks (to)us more than we know. At a deeper level of consideration, it must seem that everyone except children is susceptible to the beauties and corruptions of form, and not merely in storytelling. Plato thought this susceptibility was the erotic highway to truth. Mathematicians talk about the allure of formal beauty or elegant proofs. When revising a sentence for the sake of a more pleasing sound, I sometimes found, - suddenly - that it made better sense. This seems to me inexplicable, but then how we say anything at all, let alone write it, isn't wasy to explain."

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I think this has to do with the truth Hegel was trying to get at. And it's real. It's very real-you can almost touch it, maybe you can touch it.... It is simply part of the human ability to create-creativity is something that does follow us around a lot!

Ooops. I posted before I read. What a beautiful Einstein quote, D Poinsett!