Is the good and beautiful a lie?

[Terxpahseyton]

There is a quote I can not get out of my head: (paraphrasing)

"Beauty is the poudered sugar on the world. It tastes sweet, but a small gush and it is washed away. And we are left alone with our horror in a frightful world."

At first I recoiled at this view. Surely the good was as real as the bad. Why deny the former any legitimacy, any realness, and the bad all of it?
But in time, I came around. It wasn't an entirely correct description of the world. Bad and Good both are real. But I came to see, it gave the world a very good characterization. On a very fundamental, philosophical level. It did not so much describe how live is, to us, to a person - but, how life is, objectively. How an entirely objective person would judge it. So a fictional person. Non-existent. Yet, imaginable, and revealing in its POV.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The "good and beautiful" is subjective.

 

[Lexicus]

"Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith that I am searching for."

You have discovered Aesthetics

 

[Terxpahseyton]

The "good and beautiful" is subjective.

I agree.

"Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith that I am searching for."

You have discovered Aesthetics

Have I? But what about the real stuff. As well - Aesthetics?

 

[Lexicus]

Have I? But what about the real stuff. As well - Aesthetics?

http://civilization.wikia.com/wiki/Aesthetics_(Civ4)