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Boston University School of Law

2009

Art and religion

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Outline Of Art And The Intrinsic Worth Of A Human Life - 2009, Wendy J. Gordon Jan 2009

Outline Of Art And The Intrinsic Worth Of A Human Life - 2009, Wendy J. Gordon

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We want to believe we have intrinsic importance. We want to believe our loved ones do too. That's one of the things that makes age and death so scary: at some point no one will know that green dress was the one grandma wore to your parents' wedding, all that matters to you will no longer matter to anyone. But we want to feel that living DID matter.


Notes On Art And The Intrinsic Worth Of A Human Life - 2009, Wendy J. Gordon Jan 2009

Notes On Art And The Intrinsic Worth Of A Human Life - 2009, Wendy J. Gordon

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Recall Tina Turner's famous song, where the singer pounds the audience repeatedly with the insistent apparent question: "what's love got to do with it!?" We know she's not really asking, "What's love got to do with it"; she's making a statement. What she wants to do is deny love's force, and free herself from its disappointment. The singer's seeming repudiation of love is an attempted eradication of something that is definitely still part of her.


Handwritten Notes On Art And The Intrinsic Worth Of A Human Life - 2009, Wendy J. Gordon Jan 2009

Handwritten Notes On Art And The Intrinsic Worth Of A Human Life - 2009, Wendy J. Gordon

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At fifteen I found myself looking at a tree against the sky and being filled up with something bigger than I could contain. It was a sensation that demanded to be poured into something. The best label I could find for the emotion was "gratitude": Gratitude for the world I had not made, but had been given.