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ArleynAmadrowix25 апреля 2018 г.Beauty is, at the very least, innocent of the charges against it, and it may even be the case that far from damaging our capacity to attend to problems of injustice, it instead intensifies the pressure we feel to repair existing injuries.
141- ArleynAmadrowix25 апреля 2018 г.
...in periods when a human community is too young to have yet had time to create justice, as well as in periods when justice has been taken away, beautiful things (which do not rely on us to create them but come on their own and have never been absent from a human community) hold steadily visible the manifest good of equality and balance.
029 - ArleynAmadrowix25 апреля 2018 г.
It is hard—no matter how dedicated one is to the principle of “historical difference”—to account for the discrepancy between the aura of radical vulnerability beholders were assigned in the past and the aura of complete immunity they are assigned today.
028 - ArleynAmadrowix25 апреля 2018 г.
If [a beautiful thing] calls out for attention that has no destination beyond itself, [it] seems self-centered, too fragile to support the gravity of our immense regard.
034 - ArleynAmadrowix24 апреля 2018 г.
The beautiful, almost without any effort of our own, acquaints us with the mental event of conviction, and so pleasurable a mental state is this that ever afterwards one is willing to labor, struggle, wrestle with the world to locate enduring sources of conviction— to locate what is true.
020 - ArleynAmadrowix24 апреля 2018 г.Читать далее
At the moment one comes into the presence of something beautiful, it greets you. It lifts away from the neutral background as though coming forward to welcome you—as though the object were designed to “fit” your perception. In its etymology, “welcome” means that one comes with the well-wishes or consent of the person or thing already standing on that ground. It is as though the welcoming thing has entered into, and consented to, your being in its midst. Your arrival seems contractual, not just something you want, but something the world you are now joining wants.
029 - ArleynAmadrowix24 апреля 2018 г.
Rejecting the imperfect version of the phenomenon of begetting makes sense; what does not make sense is rejecting the general impulse toward begetting, or rejecting the beautiful things for giving rise to false, as well as true, versions of begetting.
024 - ArleynAmadrowix24 апреля 2018 г.
By perpetuating beauty, institutions of education help incite the will toward continual creation.
032 - ArleynAmadrowix24 апреля 2018 г.
This willingness continually to revise one’s own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education.
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