I'm writing one of my last college essays...ever. Strange. This is my opening paragraph and thesis. One of the biggest mindtrips I've yet to encounter in college. I love this class. Here's the question:
What is the greatest benefit of beauty to mankind?
What is the greatest benefit of beauty to mankind?
The greatest benefit of beauty is the ability for it to attract men to a notion of Truth. The higher idea of objective Truth and the beginning movement of existence is concentrated and made apparent through beauty. The interconnectedness of everything that encompasses our material existence and reality is broken down by our senses and perceptions as we move further from our birth. Birth, like a physical break from the unity of beings and matter, is a false perception of separation. The subjectivity that humans acquire as they absorb experience and opinion further strays them from the point of Truth or for the religious, Divinity. Beauty in the material world, and love for it, demands the attention of those who behold it and forces contemplation of the original movement from One. One is the Creator, God, origin of nature, the ultimate good, or some variant of the beginning point of existence. The beautiful can be more easily understood as a ray from the metaphorical “Sun,” being Truth, origin, or God, that reflects upon objects which then present themselves as beautiful in the light to our human senses.
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