Tag: Art

Adela Cortina Professor

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It seems urgent to prepare people to take up jobs. However, remains that Ortega question about if the urgent concern is not doing us to lose the passion for what is important. If school is to teach to do tasks such as managing the computer or know traffic signs, or whether to include in the curriculum subjects of Humanities, prepare to have a sense of history, mastery of the language, ability to criticize, to reflect and to argue. That they are not powers to perform an occupation, but the character capabilities to direct their own lives. On the other hand, insists that the whole of education is directed to form good citizens, and this is not any occupation, but a dimension of the person, that which allows you to drive with justice in a community. Not so much live in tranquility, which can be to las trancas, cemeteries or the silenced, but live from justice as indispensable value. And for that you do not learn how to deal with common life from knowledge of shared history, tasting of the tongue, the exercise of criticism, reflection, the art of appropriating itself to pursue life, the ability to appreciate the best values.

Things that do not belong to the mastery of the competencies, but to the formation of character. It is not good news that wants to reduce the philosophy in high school, nor is it that is intended to circumvent the civic ethic or that education for citizenship which should help educate in justice, not only to memorize lists of rights, constitutions and statutes of autonomy. Just limiting school and University to prepare for urgent, not important, to carry out tasks and not to take personal and shared life with guts for. Adela Cortina Professor of ethics and political philosophy from the University of Valencia original author and source of the article.

Artist Without Computer

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In the fine arts, I do not think. Alas, not a professional. All the subtleties and nuances of the paintings of great creators flew past me. In general, as some people can not understand higher mathematics. Two days ago my colleague was anniversary. When I saw the picture sizobrazheniem friend in the form of a vampire, then was stunned. It turned out that the cost of a small – less than a hundred bucks.

I do not believe that for the same amount in our difficult times may depict a portrait. Picture looked quite decent. Classic canvas, wooden frame. What's the matter? It turned out that the portrait was made with the aid of a computer on photo to order, then it was transferred to the canvas. Wonderful! I would not even thought of that. I, a man born in the 20th century, it was impossible to imagine that the painting is done with a tablet. He's the one connected to the computer.

The surface of the tablet are hypersensitive. It responds to touch. It turns out that there is also a pen, which when working on the tablet surface, the drawing is transferred to the monitor. After that, I was called 'the village' and 'old'. 'Well – I thought – humanity develops, the fine Art will be closer to ordinary people. But sure whether such an approach? However, if we reflect, to gain tremendous people. For example, a 'lover of beauty', as I absolutely could not tell from the picture, so to speak, 'True'. A cost significantly less. Make necessary additions to the same computer is not difficult, rather than suffer with the canvas. Most (myself included), at the mention of the painting "Black Square" just move your finger at the temple. Let me not offended by connoisseurs. Not everyone can appreciate the work of artists of merit.