http://notes.sibyllekuder.com/2008/02/09/what-good-are-the-arts/ notes . news . opinion . fact . research . ideas Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:41:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://notes.sibyllekuder.com/2008/02/09/what-good-are-the-arts/#comment-28 Jeraldine Herbison Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:40:16 +0000 http://notes.sibyllekuder.com/?p=11#comment-28 At its best, the arts make time worth passing through. It guarantees no more than any other kind of academic or spiritual endeavor. Neither can it make us virtuous or more intelligent. The arts, however, can cause us to strive for noble causes and higher levels of knowledge. The same curiosity, desire to uncover or discover, to organize and arrange , to collect, save, share, and communicate, are as much the reason for the arts, as the purpose should be for maintaining them. At its best, the arts make time worth passing through. It guarantees no more than any other kind of academic or spiritual endeavor. Neither can it make us virtuous or more intelligent. The arts, however, can cause us to strive for noble causes and higher levels of knowledge.
The same curiosity, desire to uncover or discover, to organize and arrange , to collect, save, share, and communicate, are as much the reason for the arts, as the purpose should be for maintaining them.

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