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Part 9. Metaphor and Beauty
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| ilya_shambat2004@yahoo.com 2006-04-10, 11:29 am |
| It is a main tenet of modern science that the universe can be seen in
its laws and its essence from any vintage point in the universe. This
means likewise that the universe can be seen in every part of human
mechanism. This means reason, but it also means intuition, passion and
metaphorical intelligence.
The latter consists of seeing the qualities of one aspect of the
universe in another. As the poet draws parallels between one set of
events and another, or one phenomenon and another, he sees right into
the universal essence as it is manifest in both - and attains wisdom
that sees and manifests and wraps the mind around the
interconnectedness of all things and the sublime universal wisdom that
lives through both.
Metaphor - and particularly extended metaphor - is therefore a path to
wisdom and intuitive understanding that is at least as valid as, and
more rewarding than, scientific analysis. It is a path that lets the
people see one thing as reflected in another and the universe as
reflected in both. It is a path that lets the people develop intuitive
feeling for the totality of the universe and its various reifications.
And that is as sure a path to wisdom as anything people have thought up
in either the scientific or religious paths.
The stuff of the mind of the people - both the intellect and the
emotion - is the root of their selves and then the root of their
actions. Therefore education and cultivation of beauty in all its forms
becomes in a very real and practical sense the basis for beautiful
existence. As stuff of people's minds, beauty in all its forms
becomes the basis for their thoughts and ultimately the basis for their
behavior. Radiating out of minds, which have been attuned to beauty,
beauty becomes the stuff of relationships and the stuff of the social
interactions and a daily, practical, ongoing reality of experience of
humankind.
Beauty stops being seen as inapplicable to the real world and instead
becomes formative of the real world. Which is indeed its right place in
the order of things: As the culmination of substance and form; its
consummation; its triumph; and inspiration for yet-to-be.
And which beauty becomes then a practical reality - through the
practical mechanism of people using their minds and actions to make it
so.
And with this, the wisdom and inspiration of humanity's benefactors
in history stands redeemed.
Ilya Shambat.
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| A conservative is someone who worships a dead metaphor. To adapt a
quote which I also like.
ilya_shambat2004@yahoo.com wrote:
> It is a main tenet of modern science that the universe can be seen in
> its laws and its essence from any vintage point in the universe. This
> means likewise that the universe can be seen in every part of human
> mechanism. This means reason, but it also means intuition, passion and
> metaphorical intelligence.
>
> The latter consists of seeing the qualities of one aspect of the
> universe in another. As the poet draws parallels between one set of
> events and another, or one phenomenon and another, he sees right into
> the universal essence as it is manifest in both - and attains wisdom
> that sees and manifests and wraps the mind around the
> interconnectedness of all things and the sublime universal wisdom that
> lives through both.
>
> Metaphor - and particularly extended metaphor - is therefore a path to
> wisdom and intuitive understanding that is at least as valid as, and
> more rewarding than, scientific analysis. It is a path that lets the
> people see one thing as reflected in another and the universe as
> reflected in both. It is a path that lets the people develop intuitive
> feeling for the totality of the universe and its various reifications.
> And that is as sure a path to wisdom as anything people have thought up
> in either the scientific or religious paths.
>
> The stuff of the mind of the people - both the intellect and the
> emotion - is the root of their selves and then the root of their
> actions. Therefore education and cultivation of beauty in all its forms
> becomes in a very real and practical sense the basis for beautiful
> existence. As stuff of people's minds, beauty in all its forms
> becomes the basis for their thoughts and ultimately the basis for their
> behavior. Radiating out of minds, which have been attuned to beauty,
> beauty becomes the stuff of relationships and the stuff of the social
> interactions and a daily, practical, ongoing reality of experience of
> humankind.
>
> Beauty stops being seen as inapplicable to the real world and instead
> becomes formative of the real world. Which is indeed its right place in
> the order of things: As the culmination of substance and form; its
> consummation; its triumph; and inspiration for yet-to-be.
>
> And which beauty becomes then a practical reality - through the
> practical mechanism of people using their minds and actions to make it
> so.
>
> And with this, the wisdom and inspiration of humanity's benefactors
> in history stands redeemed.
>
> Ilya Shambat.
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| ibshambat2004@hotmail.com 2006-04-27, 1:26 am |
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Angle wrote:
> A conservative is someone who worships a dead metaphor. To adapt a
> quote which I also like.
"We have been given a world that only our folly prevents from being a
paradise." - Oscar Wilde
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