>Marco:
>Another thing I've noticed is that my cat *prefers* to sleep on clean
>dresses, and on my bed when it's well arranged. Otherwise, if the bed is
>all messed up, she uses to sleep on an old chair. In the past, another cat
>had different fondnesses. I'd not point to that exactly as an appreciation
>of *the art of bed arranging*, just I think that many mammals sometimes
>seem to demonstrate a primitive sense of beauty. As well as they
>demonstrate a primitive capacity (from our viewpoint) of thought.
>
>What the sense of beauty *is*, it's a difficult question. Surely, beauty
>has the capacity to generate emotions; so, maybe, when we follow beauty we
>are also searching for emotions. By means of art, this search becomes
>active and not passive: it's an attempt to investigate and dominate and
>communicate certain aspects of reality (let's not forget that emotions are
>perfectly real).
At what point does "beauty" and "quality" become different? To me it seems
as though you are using the two terms interchangably here. When your cat
prefers a made-up bed to a messed-up bed, it is making a quality-assertion
for itself. I'm sure there are many cats out there that prefer messed-up to
made-up, and is a result of their past static PoVs.
But then, isn't that what art is aspiring to, Quality?
Are beauty and quality different?
Brian
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