Attuned to the aesthetic
The ultimate value of the world can be discovered if you are sensitive to what is beautiful
"I’m not asking whether value is purely up to us or not. I’m asking what we value, or should value. Even if we think that value is something that we do, or is in some sense made out of pleasure, we can still wonder what those valuing activities should be directed at, or in what things we can take pleasure."
By Tom Cochrane
https://aeon.co/essays/why-aesthetic-value-should-take-priority-over-moral-value
@corlin I just got through this. I've been pondering the concept of value a lot in the last few years, but I hadn't encountered a succinct summary laid out like this.
It's sort of reassuring that there are people many steps ahead of me on whatever quirk catches my attention.
I appreciate the dichotomy of intrinsic value vs contextual value -- I like this commonality that transcends theism.
But I don't know how to square this with an over-valuing on "beauty" I see in the world.
Thoughts?