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The Fine Arts are Essential for the increase of Human ExcellenceFine stratagem exists since the beginning of time. Its creation does not begin with that of mankind, for, verily, nature is the origin of each art the ultimate of all artists. Humans, however, are not blind to it at birth. Since the bestowal of vision, both bodily and that of the mind, man is expressing the desire to make corporeal that which it beholds. Evidence of this is found in ancient cave paintings, an attempt to immortalize a moment from the past, portraiture one from another life. Undoubtedly there have also been drawings in the sand made by the tough-skinned fingers of the primordial ancestor. This urge to reincarnate the sights beheld by memory remains in the being of the present-day homo-sapiens. And between presently and then, those with this trait dominant have been the creators and fashioners of paintings and sculptures sometimes revered as divine. Furthermore, these occupations read such sk ill, such craft knowledge, and elegantsse, that any other employment performed with a similar degree of these attributes is often given the status of an art. Indeed, the pursuit of the ism throw out also be deemed as such, as it requires just those neat actions in the form of thought. The two are in fact frequently closer to being the same than not, and thus, the idea that they work together in complimentary engagement, is not so far fetched. The proceeding examination, therefore, lays the foundation in inspecting what art is, its function, and where its boundaries lie. Secondly, the endeavor extends into an analysis o how fine art can and does help to further the cause that is philosophy. The final conjecture here is that the fine arts are positively necessa... ...irdly, the achievement of human excellence is deemed to pass through the practice of philosophy. Finally, due to the before mentioned, the focal practice of art is essential for the attainment of human excell ence through philosophy.Works CitedHerrigel, Eugen. venereal disease in the Art of Archery. Trans. R. F. C. Hull. New York Vintage. 1981.Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching. Trans Stephen Mitchell. New York Harper. 1988.Plato. Euthyphro, Apology, Crito. Trans. F. J. Church. speeding Saddle River Prentice Hall. 1948.Strong, David, and Eric Higgs. Borgmanns Philosophy of Technology. Technology and the Good living? Eds. Eric Higgs, Andrew Light, David Strong. Chicago University of Chicago Press. 2000.Strong, David. Lecture. Introduction to Philosophy and Religious Thought course. uncut Mountain College, Billings, MT. Spring semester, 2000.