Month: December 2013

• December 13, 2013

  Orders of beauty: In accordance with nature (2)

  Let us remind ourselves of what we have said. 1. The best human life is one that is lived in accordance with nature. 2. To live in accordance with nature is to bring into harmony the good, the true, and the beautiful. 3. First metaphysics. Nature (or reality) reveals itself in its three aspects: finitude,…
• December 12, 2013

  Ethics: In accordance with finitude (I)

  1. One ‘level’ of reality is finitude. Yesterday, I held that there are three aspects of finitude. I wrote, The three aspects that are revealed by finitude are (1) movement and rest (mutability, perishability, towardness and away-from-ness), (2) interdependence, and (3) ‘propriety’ (of measure, power, and responsiveness). 2. To live the best sort of life…
• December 11, 2013

  Aspects of reality

  What aspects of the way things are reveal themselves to us, provided we are open and provided also that we perceive these features rightly? Recall that we are attuning ourselves to the three-fold nature of reality. 1.) Infinity is absolute stillness. 2.) Totality flows out of infinity. (Or: infinity flows through totality.) 3.) The finite…
• December 10, 2013

  Non-being, being, and beings

  One would like to acquaint oneself further with ‘the way things are.’ The chief reason is that if the one who lives best lives in accordance with nature, then it would be good, to begin with, to be able to say some things about what nature is. Next, one would have to investigate what it…
• December 9, 2013

  Knowledge, goodness, and beauty

  1. To Know is to be in touch with nature, i.e., the way things are. 2. To embody the Good is to follow nature’s course. 3. To manifest Beauty is to follow along the way of things with grace. 4. Radiance brings all three into harmony in the soul. I.e., radiance is the way–the gentle demeanor, the graceful act, the…