Why Art and Philosophy Have Unequaled Value in Human Affairs

Part I By Pete Holly

The first signs of humans moving towards civalization and culture are all related to
Art{Cave Paintings,Anicent Flutes} and belief systems{Life After Death,Buriel of the Dead,
With Ceremoniel Attachments}.Humans first buried thier dead ancestors with valuble jewelry,
Clothing,and Ceremoniel Objects whose only purpose could be to assisist them in the the After-
Life.This is how we know we know primative cultures on thier stairway towards civalization had
some form of religous practices.So we know that other than the discovery of fire and man's first
crude tools for hunting and craft-making,spiritual beginings were the first real sign that man
possessed a brain which you could define as having an inner soul or at least the capacity to
intellectualize such thoughts as,The Meaning of Life,Respect for the Dead,and other idea's which
spread quickly among the relativly small population of humans who lived in ancient times.


PartII The Journey Would Have Been Impossible

It is without a doubt man's ability to philosophize and create art that represented man's
first philosophical ideas that was the catalyst for the Giant leap in human intelligence that
eventually lead to the complex patterns of thought humans are capable of thinking today.
It's been a long journey !
This is why philosophy and Art play such an important part in the brains ability to arrange incredibly complex sets of thinking ability's-to ponder questions that before man's ability to
philosophize and create representative art and abstact art that in it's own way represented and
therefore preserved what man's thinking had taught him about the nature of the world and the nature of his own life and mind.Not only is Art and Philosophy Important ! In many ways
they are the only things that have enabled humans climb towards civalization. For without a way to analyze our life's meaning and preserve those thoughts
thru art and eventually writing.The Journey we have made would have been impossible.

Written by Pete Holly-2010-copyright-all rights reserved