I come back from travels and learn that Miller has rolled himself up as a ball of tangled twine, as usual. Fundamentally, he espouses an eastern type of spiritual aesthetics but insists on the western separation of logos from mythos and the privileging of logos and the demonization of mythos. He can't have it both ways
Since he so admires eastern spirituality he should adopt its primary view that beauty is the experience of being in full harmony with nature -- being in the flow, as it were -- and not a matter of being on the outside looking at and judging the aesthetic of nature. In the eastern sensibility one must be at one with nature to experience the aesthetic and that's not attained by reason but by varied forms of contemplation, action, meditation, or the perfect fusion of reason and feeling/imagination. What I call the as-if. wc ________________________________ From: Chris Miller <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 7:59:54 AM Subject: Beauty is considered to be the culmination or perfection of specific q ualities "Beauty is a property of things perceived by humans, who can judge and evaluate abstractly. And since beauty is considered to be a culmination or perfection of specific qualities or characteristics, there is also ugly, the deficiency of those qualities. But these qualities are socially valued. Remember: there are no ugly things "in Nature." (taken from Michael's new blog) Not by me (is beauty considered to be a culmination or perfection of specific qualities or characteristics) -- because I can't identify them so that I might say "this one has a little of it, and that one has a little more, while that one must be ugly because it doesn't have any" Can anyone else here identify any such specific qualities or characteristics? ____________________________________________________________ Online Stock Trading - Straightforward pricing. Powerful tools. Click here! http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/BLSrjnxQzToFLQWEuvQKwpAmRmFra1 M4g8SRvzblPgE1Dzgkl3PFphNQPok/
