The philosopher Roger Scruton defined an element of beauty as having the ability to never fill you up. If something is beautiful, like a painting, you wish to return to look at the painting again and linger. It’s not a complete definition, but helps me ground the concept of Beauty.
Much like old architecture, I spend far longer looking at it than the modern varieties of buildings.
Indeed, there is a lot of completeness and fulness in it. There also something in it that pulls higher.
But there are two kinds of beauty, the misleading and the right one. For this, discernment is needed. Beauty is in the most general sense of the word is something that keeps attracting one to another, and this is how reality exists
The philosopher Roger Scruton defined an element of beauty as having the ability to never fill you up. If something is beautiful, like a painting, you wish to return to look at the painting again and linger. It’s not a complete definition, but helps me ground the concept of Beauty.
Much like old architecture, I spend far longer looking at it than the modern varieties of buildings.
Indeed, there is a lot of completeness and fulness in it. There also something in it that pulls higher.
But there are two kinds of beauty, the misleading and the right one. For this, discernment is needed. Beauty is in the most general sense of the word is something that keeps attracting one to another, and this is how reality exists