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[...] It is in this sense that it is important to recall for memory this powerful affirmation of Voltaire in Candide, who recommends to each to « to cultivate his garden » in reminding that : « Work removes from us three great evils: vice, boredom, and need ». In this sense, the true purpose of work is liberation, flourishing, freedom, and the realization of man. The theory of the dialectic of the master and the slave is a perfect illustration of liberating and even therapeutic work, when it is well done. [...]
[...] Would it not be intelligent, to convince oneself, to examine their specifics, their points of divergence and their points of convergence? The specificity of art From its Latin etymology Ars or Greek teknè, l'art refers to a technique, or according to André Lalande, to a « set of procedures serving to produce a result. 1» The art would in this case be indistinguishable from the activity of the craftsman, the technician or the mechanic, and even from science. However, specifically today, art is defined in the sense of fine arts as follows: plastic art, decorative art, architecture, sculpture. [...]
[...] And as, contrary to art, it is always done according to the desired results and not for its own sake: a salary, a work, a progress?, then, as André Comte-Sponville writes: «Work is therefore not an end in itself, it is only a means5. » According to the same author, «Work is not a valuer6 (morale). And That's why it has a value (market). What is not necessarily the case for art. Finally, the work is not not a duty, and « That's why it has a price7 ». Once again, and for all the reasons mentioned, art is not work, from the point of view of their specific definitional approaches. Yet in practice, art and work converge perfectly. [...]
[...] Also, he supports:The artistic beautiful is higher than the beautiful in nature », because it works from the work of a free spirit. A free spirit that dispenses with all lazy copying or abstraction detached from the sensible reality to be shaped and enriched. On the reason for work 2.1- On human alienation as a false reason for work A priori, from an etymological, biblical, and capitalist organizational perspective, work appears as alienation of absolute human freedom, that is, as a major obstacle to the flourishing of the individual. [...]
[...] III- The raison d'être of art and work It is a matter of evaluating the purposes of art and work as true vectors for artistic, economic, and social development. The raison d'être of art 1.1- Of the imitation of natural beauty as a false purpose of art To say that art is a lie is to affirm that the activity of the artist is not valuable from the point of view of Beauty and Truth. On the contrary, it is only the production of tares. [...]
