The beautiful is just like the true and the good in this respect:
To correctly appreciate it, one’s soul must be in good working order.
There are always disordered souls who will reject truth, mistake vice for virtue, and be attracted to the ugly instead of the fair.
To correctly appreciate it, one’s soul must be in good working order.
There are always disordered souls who will reject truth, mistake vice for virtue, and be attracted to the ugly instead of the fair.
This no more makes beauty and goodness "subjective” any more than truth is rendered subjective by the fact that disordered humans refuse to belief truth and eagerly believe falsehood.
And although we are all born with or develop the tools to cognize truth, recognize goodness, and sense beauty, we must learn how to use these tools properly—they can be misused or atrophy from disuse.
We are rational animals, who have the task of becoming what we are.
We are rational animals, who have the task of becoming what we are.
