... feelings in the individual, to create a dialogue between the artist and the audience, arts also commonly create compassion. Even though, theoretically, possibility of recognizing oneself within the wide borders of a generalization is much greater, somehow it touches human emotions much less than identifying a part of themselves within a specific work of art, which is dealing with a personal issue. For example, a philosophical investigation on what war is and on human characteristics that cause aggressiveness will have a much smaller impact on most individuals' emotions than a single picture of a child mutilated in war. Generalizations may often be inescapable and needed, but they seldom affect our emotions and therefore can leave us unmoved, without having an impact on the knowledge we form. This demonstrates that the knowledge we gain from scientific sources does differ from "artistic" knowledge by the level of emotions involved, which seems to ...

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