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It's a nice distinction. I wonder whether we can go further though, and not even need that distinction. Here's my take on it. Any human endeavour is worth its
by placebo 8y ago
It's a nice distinction. I wonder whether we can go further though, and not even need that distinction. Here's my take on it.
Any human endeavour is worth its salt if it succeeds at discovering and expressing beauty. It can be a mathematical proof, a theory in physics, an elegant algorithm, a painting, a dance, a novel, a relationship - the list is as endless as the number of ways humans can come up with, and can be as deep and complex and subtle as they wish to make it, but it always comes back to finding and expressing beauty.
- canhascodez 8y agoKeats famously said something quite similar, but this to me seems a bit reductionist.
- placebo 8y agoI'm embarrassed to say that I wasn't aware of Keats' writings and your comment sent me to get more educated about him, which I found very interesting, so thanks for that :) Not sure in what sense you find the view reductionist, but I suspect it could be from inadequately expressing what I mean