Truth and Beauty
You know, I've decided that Beauty is a pale, but certainly more jovial, companion to Truth....
So it's not so much that they are equal in qualities, but Truth *must* contain more than Beauty, must encompass more, more pain, more inconsistencies...Beauty is indeed one of the absolute forms, but different somehow - I'll have to look up what Plato said...
THE MORE LATER PART:
Plato loved knowledge - felt in his bones the truth (and the beauty) in knowing and becoming.
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Maybe so, though this is the part of Plato I don't know... Still, Truth in this form sounds like a harsh, cruel mistress, heedless of all in its path, forcing blinding light to be shed rather than wrapping you in comfort. Or comforting illusions. Truth is like a dry plain, arid and dusty, where even the acacias have a hard time surviving. See? It's not beauteous... Or rather, what it brings may be blinding reality, but do we measly humans want that? I think we can only take some of it, even to ourselves, and inflict Pain on others (and perhaps on ourselves) when we deal in too much Truth.
Of course, Beauty may not be enough either, too much in the realm of the dreamy aesthetic. Or too much air and not enough ground. Besides, it's hard to be moved by Truth, but not hard to be moved by Beauty...
So what are the other absolute forms? Maybe there's an alternative?
W. O. Legib
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