RE: What Human Rights?
July 26, 2015 at 9:59 am
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2015 at 10:00 am by Mudhammam.)
(July 26, 2015 at 3:53 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: No, what he's saying is morality -- i.e., moral truths -- is both relative and subjective.What do you mean by emotional truth? If by aesthetic truth, you mean something like, "Jackson Pollock's 'Number 11, 1952' [1] is more beautiful than anything a child could do [2]," or, "Leonardo da Vinci's 'Virgin of the Rocks' [3] is more aesthetically pleasing than Andres Serrano's 'Piss Christ' [4]," and that these statements cannot be objectively true or false, I'm not so sure I agree. It seems objectively true that some art possesses the ability to move us - most people, or those with exquisite knowledge about art - by what we call beauty more than others.
Is there such thing as an emotional truth?
Is there such thing as an æsthetic truth?
I think there are different kinds of truth. Some are universal (the inverse-square function of gravity, for instance) while others are private (I hate cauliflower).
[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_11,_1952_(painting)
[2]http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/b1/c4/b1c434b3a5ae19104b67b9e29bc055ce.jpg?itok=wzbFSAlZ
[3]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_of_the_Rocks
[4]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza