AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.
"the essence of religiosity, reception of this message that shines forth from Being itself." (paraphrased but that's close)
JFM: The ought embedded in the is. Hume. Moral dimension embedded in the world. The artist's job is to "configure things so the ought shines through", there is something profoundly moral about art.
PF: Handel thing, whatever is, is right. I think they are getting sidetracked onto the ontology of morality which is boring. Close to a Zen view, kind of. Not that what is is right, but it is how it must be...
JFM: Who is the authority? Something about the torso subverts our knee-jerk antiauthoritarianism.