EP 13: Art and Mythology of Thomas Mann
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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The Conflict Between Ethics and Metaphysics Runs Through All Art
The philosopher thomas nagel tackled this issue in his controversial 20 12 book, mind and cos mos. Professor campbell believes that there is a conflict between ethics and metaphysics that runs through all art. And the challenge the artists faces is to largely disengage from the phenomenalogical space time ethical position - which means to affirm life exactly as it is,. All its violence and all its rationality.
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