Second Question on Danto

If perception without conception is blind, then what does that make of hypothetical constructs such as the human soul, the mind, or even God?


I'm aware that this notion sort of strays away from the concept of art and philosophy, but it is tangentially related seeing as how the phrase was brought up in class.  Now, this idea that we can perceive of something without having any past conceptions on it is in fact a blind way to look at things.  With ideas of God and the soul where no physical evidence or anything of the like can be found to support these notions, and yet having infallible belief in them seems to be a blind view of reality.  If this is a blind way of looking at things, then these things themselves surely are nonsensical.


Now, in no way is this an attempt to attack those with faith or that wish to perceive of the human soul, for even I refer to the human mind and refer to myself as using my mind on a day to day basis.  Be this as it may, it is still baffling to think that we can attempt to assign a reality or a physical attachment to these notions when none exist.  We perceive these ideas without anything to support their existence, nor any true knowledge of them to begin with.  I also doubt that we are born with some innate sense of the existence of God, or a soul, or a mind. These are creations of the human mind as it develops, and even then develops because it was taught to the mind by others.  All in all, it is a curious thing indeed.