Re: Beethoven's 5th Symphony

From: Peter H.M. Brooks (peter_at_new.co.za)
Date: 02/07/05 

Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 06:10:43 +0200

Matthew Fields wrote:
> In article <cu3mmm$fe0$1@ctb-nnrp2.saix.net>,
> Peter H.M. Brooks <peter@new.co.za> wrote:
>
>>You are forced, by your position, though to accept that I too
>>have an alternative reality, just as valid as yours. In mine sound
>>aesthetic judgement is important, valid, real, on the button and so forth.
>
>
> This is nonsense based on the mistaken notion that aesthetic
> relativism entails factual relativism. Beauty is not a form of truth,
> no matter how many ways you try to argue from the mistaken assumption
> to the contrary. I regret to report that your arguments have amounted
> to exactly the bull*** you'ved accused others of making.
>
Keats notwithstanding.

I appreciate your opinion nevertheless, maybe I'll learn the arguments
behind it some time. 

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with bones, yet might a virgin with a bag of gold walk the length of his 
dominions without harm, so perfect was his governance" - George 
MacDonald Fraser, 'The Candlemass Road'
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