PHL 504 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Photobombing, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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For socrates, every individual is from a certain kind or form. When it comes to art: he sees it as an imitation. Shiny glass, and re ected in the glass is a pencil. The reality of the re ected pencil is substantially less real than the pencil itself. World of images is derivative of the world of sensible individuals. If you had a choice between the pencil and the re ection, you"d choose the actual pencil. Even when your not near an oak tree, ideas are everywhere, its conceptually available. In respect to the actual painting of the oak tree, it is an individual thing that has a way of expressing a high truth that brings us closer to the essence. Kind of seeing that opens us up. Halfway between a natural scene and an idea. Photobombs , they are the natural world. Bunch of individuals and other individuals photobomb and effect their being.