Saturday, April 21, 2012
More on Beauty
Why can't we simply think that everything is beautiful? Is there really such a problem with that? In class we brought it up in discussion that, supposedly, if we follow Nehamas' view then we would and could call everything beautiful. Well is that really so wrong? What's wrong with finding beauty innate in anything and everything in the world? I do not find it to be ignorance or the like, but simply having appreciation for that which so humbly and abundantly surrounds us every day of our lives. One does not need to be an esteemed and astute critic with a narrow-mindedness on what is good or bad art or what is truly beautiful to appreciate something and get pleasure from it. To me, that mindset is the ignorant one. While it is all well and good to have varying degrees of appreciation for things, and while it is okay to have intellectual analyses of certain things, that does not mean to condemn those who simply to decide to appreciate something for the sake of appreciating it, for in the end, what does it really matter? It is all opinion, and ultimately, in this Universe where humans are but a mere speck of dust, our opinions don't mean a thing.
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