Philosophy of the soul

[Anonymous No.16501525]

Is the understanding and appreciation of beauty a manifestation of the soul? Who should I read to further understand this concept?

[Anonymous No.16501689]

It's worth looking into St Augustine's works on Aesthetics, I went a bit schzo taking notes on them a while back. Also picrel, a bit simpler, but good.

[Anonymous No.16501720]

>>16501689
Crap book. I normally like scruton but he doesn't articulate a single original thought in the entire work.

[Anonymous No.16501741]

>>16501720
There aren't many original thoughts left anon

[Anonymous No.16501752]

>>16501525
(0:1.17) Divinity is creature comprehensible as truth, beauty, and goodness; correlated in personality as love, mercy, and ministry; disclosed on impersonal levels as justice, power, and sovereignty.
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(1:4.5) The divine mystery consists in the inherent difference which exists between the finite and the infinite, the temporal and the eternal, the time-space creature and the Universal Creator, the material and the spiritual, the imperfection of man and the perfection of Paradise Deity. The God of universal love unfailingly manifests himself to every one of his creatures up to the fullness of that creature's capacity to spiritually grasp the qualities of divine truth, beauty, and goodness.
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(2:7.8) The discernment of supreme beauty is the discovery and integration of reality: The discernment of the divine goodness in the eternal truth, that is ultimate beauty. Even the charm of human art consists in the harmony of its unity.

[Anonymous No.16501755]

2:7.10.
Truth, beauty, and goodness are divine realities, and as man ascends the scale of spiritual living, these supreme qualities of the Eternal become increasingly co-ordinated and unified in God, who is love.

2:7.11.All truth—material, philosophic, or spiritual—is both beautiful and good. All real beauty—material art or spiritual symmetry—is both true and good. All genuine goodness—whether personal morality, social equity, or divine ministry—is equally true and beautiful. Health, sanity, and happiness are integrations of truth, beauty, and goodness as they are blended in human experience. Such levels of efficient living come about through the unification of energy systems, idea systems, and spirit systems.

2:7.12.Truth is coherent, beauty attractive, goodness stabilizing. And when these values of that which is real are co-ordinated in personality experience, the result is a high order of love conditioned by wisdom and qualified by loyalty. The real purpose of all universe education is to effect the better co-ordination of the isolated child of the worlds with the larger realities of his expanding experience. Reality is finite on the human level, infinite and eternal on the higher and divine levels.

[Anonymous No.16501764]

44:7.2.Beauty, rhythm, and harmony are intellectually associated and spiritually akin. Truth, fact, and relationship are intellectually inseparable and associated with the philosophic concepts of beauty. Goodness, righteousness, and justice are philosophically interrelated and spiritually bound up together with living truth and divine beauty.

44:7.3.Cosmic concepts of true philosophy, the portrayal of celestial artistry, or the mortal attempt to depict the human recognition of divine beauty can never be truly satisfying if such attempted creature progression is ununified. These expressions of the divine urge within the evolving creature may be intellectually true, emotionally beautiful, and spiritually good; but the real soul of expression is absent unless these realities of truth, meanings of beauty, and values of goodness are unified in the life experience of the artisan, the scientist, or the philosopher.

44:7.4.These divine qualities are perfectly and absolutely unified in God. And every God-knowing man or angel possesses the potential of unlimited self-expression on ever-progressive levels of unified self-realization by the technique of the never-ending achievement of Godlikeness—the experiential blending in the evolutionary experience of eternal truth, universal beauty, and divine goodness.

[Anonymous No.16501773]

>>16501525
does this mean I am soulless how does one get a soul

[Anonymous No.16501785]

>>16501741
True, but to me it just rang of 'book deal' rather than anything of substance. I also thought the title was unnecessarily pretentious but maybe I'm just a midwit which missed the point.

[Anonymous No.16502144]

>>16501773
Sorry to inform you anon

[Anonymous No.16502184]

>>16501720
Any Scruton recs? I'm left-ish but I enjoy him a lot and have watched a good handful of his lectures this past month. His 'Why Beauty Matters' doc was very good.

[Anonymous No.16502252]

>>16502144
knowledge sounds nice but when I start to read I just get so sleepy...

[Anonymous No.16502267]

>>16501525
>a manifestation of the soul
What the fuck does that even mean?

[Anonymous No.16502286]

>>16502144
>tfw doomed to be psychic forever

[Anonymous No.16502719]

>>16501525
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke.