Topic: Divine Reason

Joseph P. Farrell argues that the cosmos was historically viewed as a product of divine reason with its own inherent grammar for handling information. He asserts that the arts, including music and painting, were originally understood as technologies for manipulating human passions and thoughts within this cosmological framework. This universal tradition began to shift toward personal expression at the end of the 18th century, leading to a loss of the objective cosmological grounding in artistic creation.