A Christian Aesthetic
Beauty cannot survive a hyper-pragmatic view of reality. It is choked out. And where beauty dies, goodness departs. Any “truth” that stands stalwart amid such ruins has no glory. And one ought not desire it.
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September 17th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Do you have an example of this? Maybe a story. I tend to call what gives me the most pleasure most beautiful. If that were the case then wouldn’t my pragmatic attempt to gain pleasure result in the propagation of beauty?