I liked reading “Knowledge & the Arts” because I found it interesting and I learned more about art from a different perspective with deeper thinking. Before reading this, I thought art was just art that it wasn’t something that special. I never really understood why people found it so interesting or important. But now my point of view has changed because I didn’t think that art had this much deeper meaning to know what it means to be human.
The text also made me think more deeply. I found it interesting on page 10 about the three questions in religious art. I personally really liked the line from page 10 “And if we learn about who we are, where we are, and how we are, and how best to live, then we gain the highest form of knowledge, which is traditionally called wisdom” (p. 10). I liked it because it made me think more about what actually knowledge means. I also liked it because it sounds very wise and I also think it is . Before this, I thought knowledge was just information you learn in school, like history or math. But now I see that knowing so much of history or math isn’t the same as knowing how to live. You can be really smart in biology but still make bad choices if you don’t have wisdom.
I liked the last line about how we need the arts today more than ever. I think this is true because if scientists don’t have wisdom, they are likely to make mistakes. Wisdom is very important, and we need to know how important wisdom is in our lives. Science can tell us how to cure diseases, but it doesn’t always tell us if we should. That is where art and wisdom come in. Art helps us think about what matters and how to live better, and that is why we need it.