Re: [-empyre-] form constants

[Soo Kwok Heng <kwoksooheng@mac.com>]

On 3 Jan 2005, at 5:59 am, Simon Biggs wrote:

> The pursuant discussion to this on Empyre has tended strongly to the
> empirical. Why is it that the art and technology area attracts 
> determinists?
>
> Best
>
> Simon

Perhaps because art deals with mediation and meaning, and with the 
rapid development (and implementation) of technology in our age, one 
tends to ask for the justification of change.

Some would opine that the Confucian system of ethics is highly 
resistant to change. But given the Chinese "world-view" of change being 
inevitable (I-Ching's line on "Heaven changes, the gentleman forces 
himself not to rest." -- direct translation), might Confucius have had 
his eye on restricting the pace of change than forestalling change 
itself.


Best
Kwok Heng