Friday, 7 March 2014

Mundane, Sublime and Beauty.

Beauty - The beauty of the world and surroundings will differ for every one person, no two people have the same idea of what is beautiful, they may come close but they are always different. Ideas of beauty can change through experience. Life's experiences can influence thoughts and feelings which alter the view of things - "life's suffering is what brings out our astonishing beauty".

Sublime - The quality of greatness, moral intellectual. Greatness beyond all possibility of what is calculated to be possible, greater that what anyone could think to be possible. The term sublime is based around things being more than possible, upon looking up the words meaning i came across the terms 'supreme' and 'outstanding' so to me, sublime is a word used for things that are unbelievable or even just a lot more amazing and better than anyone could ever think they could be.

"The sublime evades easy definition. Today the word is used for the most ordinary reasons, for a ‘sublime’ tennis shot or a ‘sublime’ evening. In the history of ideas it has a deeper meaning, pointing to the heights of something truly extraordinary, an ideal that artists have long pursued" - http://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/the-sublime/what-is-the-sublime-r1109449

Mundane - The word mundane related to the everyday ordinary things that we are surrounded by that relate to the world in which we live it, so basically all of the familiar and recognisable things that are surrounding us on a daily basis. Mundane could be quite simple and normal, things that are very familiar to people such as routes walked daily, familiarity. All of the days ordinary occurrences are based around the mundane things in life.


The idea of a perfect world.



"Perfection exists as an abstraction of our minds, but is not attainable in the physical world" 
our idea of perfection is something that can only be seen in our minds, as every ones idea of perfect will differ, only the said person will know what they deem to be beautiful. What we each see as beautiful may only be beautiful in out minds and the beauty is not something that can actually be seen within the real would and our surroundings, just a mental image within the mind.


"I believe that natural perfection does not exist and further that it is a creation of our minds.  It is a concept and not an attribute of reality. And yes, of course there are those who will argue philosophically that if the concept exists, then perfection is part of reality. Meaning the conception is part of reality. Of course, the concept is"  - http://abyssinia-iffat.com/DoesPerfectionExist.htm

As people who may see the same things everyday we learn to know things and to be familiar with the, you can say a word such as apple and because of lifes familiarity you know exactly what it looks like and it appears in your mind.


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