Friday, January 28, 2011

Family?

 So, I am really excited to start blogging again, because I remember how it was like last semester in art and philosophy. Despite how much it pained me staying up on s trying to squeeze out any old idea I could write about, I enjoyed forcing myself to think on these subjects. Hopefully in this semester I could do it again. Speaking of Art and Philosophy actually, I happen to remember this one theory we went over in that class that reminds me of the nature of human nature. I believe that this theory was proposed by a philosopher named White.  His theory compared how families work to what art it. For example, one might have the same eyes as one's father, but one's brother has their grandmas, but they both have their mothers nose. The overall idea was that just like how all families have related physical characteristics with some but not others, the same thing occurred with art. So some art had some things in common with others, while the others had things in common with other pieces as well. I was thinking perhaps that was how human nature worked too.
 Could it be possible that human nature functions like a family and their characteristics too?

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