Is it not foolhardy just to seek vein pleasures and not swim the depths of sorrow that seem so much deeper and more important?
My wounded rhymes make silent cries tonight
My wounded rhymes make silent cries tonight
And I'll keep it like a burning
Longing from a distance
Indeed, after not feeling my emotions for so long i am relieved to finally feel something and at times am glad I feel melancholic — intrapersona
That leaves questions: beauty is arguably a product of struggle. But the struggle itself is not product; it's producer. Can the production be beautiful? Clearly it can be.
No less a philosopher than William Fenton Russell makes the point: if basketball is ever beautiful, that beauty comes out of the struggle, the contest. If instead of competing (he argues) the athletes carefully rehearsed pas de deux with supporting corps de ballet, the results would not be beautiful.
All goes well when the viewer's mimics the artist's creative struggle because the work, if beautiful, give us pleasure which enables us to move beyond our determinate concepts, in pleasure and pain, in the aesthetic effect, we move beyond the visible. — Cavacava
Resonance. The beautiful (is that which) causes resonates. This allows for the beautiful to be either created or natural - the effect is the measure! The beautiful, then, is within us and nowhere else, or so it must seem.
As affect, the beautiful seems to be that which gives the moment its greatest presence, its greatest fulfillment with that which we always want more of (even if it inspires awe, even a kind of terror!)
The beautiful, then, seems to be a kind of communication or encounter with an other, whether inter- or intrapersonal, that, being perceived, causes a momentary (for however long the moment lasts) peak experience. What there is in the communication that stands as the cause (aka the beautiful) depends both on the recipient as individual (I'm a swine, you're not), as member of a culture (they're swine, we're not), and as a member of humanity (no swine here).
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