Quotes from Thomas McEvilley

Fish gotta swim Bird gotta fly Man gotta sit and say Why why why

Lyotard remarked that post-Modern artists often function as philosophers. They may deal with issues of metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, as many influential critics today approach art through philosophy.

The African-American classical scholar Frank Snowden has argued that color prejudice did not exist in the Greco-Roman world.35 "In the Mediterranean world," he notes, "the black man was seldom a strange, unknown being." Further, "in antiquity slavery was independent of race or class," so the stereotype of the black human as inherently slavish never developed as it did in the era of the middle passage.

Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.

To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence.