Creative arts inexhaustibly give us ways of looking into human souls and thus expand our own outlook and understanding.... Authenticity, which in the arts means at the most profound communion with another human soul, is something we are destined by evolution to want from literature, music, painting, and the other arts. This sense of communion exhilarates and elevates the spirit.... I believe that this intense interest in art as emotional expression derives from wanting to see through art into another human personality: it springs from a desire for knowledge of another person. (p. 192-3, 235)
I couldn't agree more. I just don't see what this has to do with evolution, or why we have to bring evolution into it at all.
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