Excellent my friend, and I think this is an astute reflection that suggests a paradox we find ourselves in now: what we know a thing "as" is "always already" framed in how we know things, and how we know things is tied to what we "are." This could lead to the hopelessness of a "hermeneutic circle," but on the hand if we "know" about this circle, what kind of being must we be? This suggests the step to the meta-modernity, the self-reference of the self-reference, that I think ultimately leads to Beauty. Great work!
We don't know what things are made of and will never know that: the very definition of impossibility. And that impossibility is beauty. The paradox is that the impossibility manifests and can't be denied.
Well said. The definition of the beautiful as the impossible is intriguing. It explains, in part, the gap between the altogether efficient, the steps collapsing, as it were, into a staircase, where the function of the things oversteps and imparts uniformity to the several things in common, making them into one thing, instrumental to the end. Whereas the beautiful as such is the end of a conclusion, not the beginning or the middle of the argument. The beautiful as the impossible sets aside the question of practical utility altogether, without diminishing it, rather full-orbing it into a domain of knowledge the likes of which are to be found in the practical arts, in technical achievements, in planning, to be precise and general at the same time. The beautiful stands in utter relief to this zoning of commodious interchanges, as not the untying of a knot, but the breeze in the afternoon, not the quiet on the still lake in a forest, but the character of a changed mind.
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Excellent my friend, and I think this is an astute reflection that suggests a paradox we find ourselves in now: what we know a thing "as" is "always already" framed in how we know things, and how we know things is tied to what we "are." This could lead to the hopelessness of a "hermeneutic circle," but on the hand if we "know" about this circle, what kind of being must we be? This suggests the step to the meta-modernity, the self-reference of the self-reference, that I think ultimately leads to Beauty. Great work!
We don't know what things are made of and will never know that: the very definition of impossibility. And that impossibility is beauty. The paradox is that the impossibility manifests and can't be denied.
Well said. The definition of the beautiful as the impossible is intriguing. It explains, in part, the gap between the altogether efficient, the steps collapsing, as it were, into a staircase, where the function of the things oversteps and imparts uniformity to the several things in common, making them into one thing, instrumental to the end. Whereas the beautiful as such is the end of a conclusion, not the beginning or the middle of the argument. The beautiful as the impossible sets aside the question of practical utility altogether, without diminishing it, rather full-orbing it into a domain of knowledge the likes of which are to be found in the practical arts, in technical achievements, in planning, to be precise and general at the same time. The beautiful stands in utter relief to this zoning of commodious interchanges, as not the untying of a knot, but the breeze in the afternoon, not the quiet on the still lake in a forest, but the character of a changed mind.