What Is Art? What Is It For? An Inquiry

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-My thanks for (past and future) rating and reviewing! 
-Art vs. Craft 
-The spectrum of creativity 
-Craft as all making, not rote production 
-The Romantic fallacy of art without craft 
-The case to abolish "art." 
-Utilitarian vs. Rhetorical craft 
-Horace's "Dulce Et Utile" 
-The secret third thing that Horatio had not dreamt of in his philosophy 
-The three functions of art 
-The Hedonic function ;) 
-Sensory, Cognitive, Emotional Pleasure
-Let me teach you about the Noetic function. 
-Insight vs. Sensitization
-What do YOU think of the Dialectical function? 
-Functional symbiosis 
-Individual functions in excess and isolation 
-A rubric for artistic evaluation 
-Collectivist Art (for us!) 
-Individualist Art (for me!) 
-Humanist Art (for the universal spirit of humankind!)