I understand `awe inspiring` to be subjective - hence, subject to changes in the observer, such as ephemeral mood or loss of a sensory organ. You seem to treat it as a heuristic or statistical property - i.e. it's awe inspiring because people have felt awe in the past and you expect people to feel awe in the future.
I suppose I can understand either position. But it's silly to say that awe inspiring is just a property of the object - i.e. you say "without something being awe-inspiring, there's no possibility for awe to be inspired when the conditions are right." That's just too egocentric. People find all sorts of funny things awe-inspiring. Like football. Or grocery bags in the wind. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKg6OJ6zhhc) Regards, Dave On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Julian Leviston <jul...@leviston.net>wrote: > No, I find it IS awe-inspiring all of the time. > > I may not necessarily be full of awe or actually be inspired at any > particular one time... however, this doesn't change the fact that certain > things or people themselves are awe-inspiring all of the time to me. In > other words, if I'm in a bad mood, this is in itself not necessarily any > fault, consequence or relationship of or to the fact that Alan Kay is still > an amazing person. Even in my bad mood, I recognise he is awe-inspiring. > > Guess this depends what you mean by awe-inspiring (as I originally said). > If you re-read the original context, he was talking about inherent > breathtaking beauty being required or not. I think to make something > inherently beautiful or to construct it with detailed thought is actually > very worthwhile. Without something being awe-inspiring, there's no > possibility for awe to be inspired when the conditions are right. When > something is awe inspiring, it doesn't necessarily always follow that awe > will be inspired, though ;-) > > :P > > Julian > > On 18/01/2012, at 11:34 AM, David Barbour wrote: > > You don't find it awe-inspiring "all the time". (If you do, you're > certainly dysfunctional.) But I readily believe you still find it inspiring > "some of the time" - and that is enough to be an enriching experience. > > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > >
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