ARTT150

Question 1

Why is there a secret life of the intellect?

Answer 1

The brain is divided, truth is obscured and has little access to the right side of the brain

Question 2

Why are some of the elements of the class difficult, as well as some contemporary art, rejected or greeted with anger?

Answer 2

Resistance is common with art that is inexplicable, we don’t necessarily have the right words, art must be grasped through intuition

Question 3

What is being’s relationship to truth?

Answer 3

Reality

Question 4

What does culture do for art?

Answer 4

Culture maintains art (art creates culture)

Question 5

Homo sepian

Answer 5

Savoring man rather than just knowing man and reveals our need to contemplate things

Question 6

The word “Thing”

Answer 6

It is all inclusive and related to being itself; the name Maritian gives to truth

Question 7

Why do we admire labor over work and skill over art?

Answer 7

They’re measurable and easier to understand; work and art are reaching for being itself which is very difficult

Question 8

What are the two human needs?

Answer 8

Humor and forgiveness

Question 9

What two words express how briefly we experience reality?

Answer 9

Hints and glimpses

Question 10

In this class we have three words- wisdom, prudence, and art- what are they?

Answer 10

The intellectual virtues

Question 11

What are the four components of the mind?

Answer 11

Intellect, will, memory, and imagination

Question 12

Which of the four components of the mind concerns art?

Answer 12

Intellect

Question 13

Which of the four components of the mind does not concern art?

Answer 13

Will

Question 14

What are habits?

Answer 14

Permanent acquired conditions that perfect a thing in the line itself

Question 15

What are virtues?

Answer 15

Habits that got that much further; lead to optimum perfect

Question 16

Why are some things inexplicable yet we can know and experience them, like art?

Answer 16

Through intuition (right side of brain)

Question 17

Why do the words intellect and understanding, as commonly used, create difficulty in grasping early material in this class and accepting that the truth is obscure?

Answer 17

These words are always connected to speech; the truth requires humility and reading between the known elements (initiation)

Question 18

What are the transcendentals? Name them.

Answer 18

They constitute being and are everywhere found within being; unity, beauty, goodness, and truth

Question 19

To what do rules and meaning does art conform to according to Coomaraswamy?

Answer 19

Cosmic harmonies

Question 20

What is a virtue of both the intellect and the will?

Answer 20

Prudence

Question 21

What is the most intellectual virtue?

Answer 21

Art

Question 22

Aristotle, besides knowing truth, what function does he give for the intellect?

Answer 22

Action (or the operative)

Question 23

What did Aristotle’s teacher, Plato, emphasize about the intellect?

Answer 23

The idea

Question 24

What are the two orders of the intellect according to Aristotle?

Answer 24

Practical and speculative; speculative know truth; practical puts knowing into operation (puts knowing into the world)

Question 25

How is skill concerned with art? (Skill is the manual ability needed to produce something)

Answer 25

A work of art

Question 26

What is everything to art?

Answer 26

The work

Question 27

What is the activity of art?

Answer 27

The impressing an idea upon matter (the implementation of the intellect)

Question 28

What is the Greek’s division of art?

Answer 28

Liberal and corporal

Question 29

What are the contemporary separations of art?

Answer 29

Fine, useful (functional), and decorative

Question 30

What is contemplation?

Answer 30

The act of uniting with time and space to reach pure being through the existential reality of things of time and space

Question 31

What is the form as we have used the term contemplation?

Answer 31

That which makes the thing what it is

Question 32

What are the levels of consciousness?

Answer 32

Conscious, pre conscious, unconscious (and also subconscious)

Question 33

On what level of consciousness does the intuition reside? Is that answer a characteristic of the intellect?

Answer 33

Preconscious; yes

Question 34

What three things do we do to escape the unfamiliar?

Answer 34

Resistance, distraction, and inertia

Question 35

Does the virtue of art always intend to let the artist know what the artist wants to make?

Answer 35

No

Question 36

What unites prudence and art?

Answer 36

Both an order of the practical intellect

Question 37

What separates prudence and art?

Answer 37

The will

Question 38

Why are all men said to be in bondage and why is all art flawed?

Answer 38

Lack of wisdom

Question 39

Why do all things tend towards mediocrity?

Answer 39

We choose the familiar and accept that rather than engage with the new and obscure; it takes time for us to become familiar with new things; to advance human taste we must engage and become unfamiliar with the new

Question 40

What are the three definitions of art?

Answer 40

Art is the right making of the thing; art is a virtue of the practical intellect; art is the idea preceding things creating them

Question 41

What does the word sacrifice mean?

Answer 41

Sacri- holy, “whole”
Fice- work
Cosmic nature is to be unified all the way through its whole being

Question 42

What is the relationship between art and prudence?

Answer 42

When knowing goes to work it does and it makes (to does good conduct) (in the practical intellect)

Question 43

What is prudence?

Answer 43

A virtue of the practical intellect and will

Question 44

What is being?

Answer 44

That which is