Aesthetics

God is really working to show us, look, I'm a beautiful God.

Aesthetics matter.

Go and do beautiful things in your life.

Be beautiful through my spirit and draw people to me.

And what happens in these gross, giant cities? humans have just a weight of ugliness that starts to twist the soul.

It's not the only reason, but it's a big part of the reason.

Aesthetics matters and and by the way when you think so you said beauty is deceptive or something like that i want to be careful here in a sense yeah i agree right um uh there you think of um you think of visual pleasures uh something that's a maybe on you look at videos on youtube or maybe pornography um There's something beautiful there.

And yet, in a sense, that object is also deceiving us.

Gorgeous.

Aesthetic-wise, it's beautiful, so that's always a big plus.

Number four proves that we've finally reached the point where even our chargers need screens.

So our slippers need to be plugged in, our chargers now need screens.

I was not aware that by 1860 Europe had long passed his works by, in favor of more modern thinking.

With a passionate desire to reach a comprehension of the truth I grappled with the system; began with the Encyclopaedia, read the three volumes of Aesthetics, The Philosophy of Law, The Philosophy of History, The Phenomenology of the Mind, then The Philosophy of Law again, and finally the Logic, the Natural Philosophy, and the Philosophy of the Mind, in a veritable intoxication of comprehension and delight.

One day when a young girl towards whom I felt attracted had asked me to go and say good-bye to her before her departure, I forgot the time, her journey, and my promise to her over my Hegel.

As I walked up and down my room I chanced to pull my watch out of my pocket and realized that I had missed my appointment, and that the girl must have started long ago.

Hegel's Philosophy of Law had a charm for me as a legal student, partly on account of the superiority with which the substantial quality of Hegel's mind is there presented, and partly on account of the challenge in the attitude of the book to accepted opinions and expressions; morality here being almost the only thing Hegel objects to.

But it was the book of Aesthetics that charmed me most of all.

It was easy to understand and yet weighty, superabundantly rich.

Again and again while reading Hegel's works I felt carried away with delight at the new world of thought opening out before me; and when anything that for a long time had been incomprehensible to me at last after tedious reflection became clear, I felt what I called myself an unspeakable bliss.

I was not aware that by 1860 Europe had long passed his works by, in favor of more modern thinking.

With a passionate desire to reach a comprehension of the truth, I grappled with the system, began with the Encyclopedia, read the three volumes of Aesthetics, the Philosophy of Law, the Philosophy of History, the Phenomenology of the Mind, then the Philosophy of Law again, and finally the Logic, the Natural Philosophy, and the Philosophy of the Mind, in a veritable intoxication of comprehension and delight.

One day when a young girl towards whom I felt attracted had asked me to go and say goodbye to her before her departure, I forgot the time, her journey, and my promise to her over my Hegel.

As I walked up and down my room I chanced to pull my watch out of my pocket and realized that I had missed my appointment and that the girl must have started long ago.

And partly on account of the challenge in the attitude of the book to accepted opinions and expressions.

Morality here being almost the only thing Hegel objects to.

But it was the book of Aesthetics that charmed me most of all.

It was easy to understand and yet weighty, super abundantly rich.

But it is the singularity of the expression which reigns upon his face.

It is the intense, the wonderful, the thrilling evidence of old age, so utter, so extreme, which excites within my spirit a sense, a sentiment ineffable.

His forehead, although a little wrinkled, seems to bear upon it the stamp of a myriad of years.

His gray hairs are records of the past, and his grayer eyes are symbols of the future.

The cabin floor was thickly strewn with strange, iron-clasped folios, and mouldering instruments of science, and obsolete, long-forgotten charts.

I have imbibed the shadows of fallen columns at Baalbek, and Tadmor, and Persepolis, until my very soul has become a ruin.

When I look around me, I feel ashamed of my former apprehensions.

If I trembled at the blast which has hitherto attended us, shall I not stand aghast at a warning of wind and ocean? To convey any idea of which the words tornado and simoom are trivial and ineffective? All in the immediate vicinity of the ship is the blackness of eternal night and a chaos of formless water, but about a league on either side of me can be seen, indistinctly and at intervals, stupendous ramparts of ice, towering away into the desolate sky and looking like the walls of the universe.

I'm Brent Siddle.

My very special guest on the show this time is Dennis Bray, who's willing to talk about his new IVP book, What is Beauty? An Introduction to Art and Aesthetics.

Dennis is a philosophical theologian who integrates insights from philosophy, biblical and systematic theology, history, and the empirical sciences.

He's assistant professor of theology at Taylor University.

But that's okay because it's a great piece of art.

And great art opens up a place where we can enter into... meditation and conversation, which is just prayer.

And the book from IVP is called What is Beauty? An Introduction to Art and Aesthetics.

Grab a copy.

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And this is episode 19.

I was not aware that by 1860 Europe had long passed his works by, in favor of more modern thinking.

With a passionate desire to reach a comprehension of the truth, I grappled with the system, began with the Encyclopedia, read the three volumes of Aesthetics, the Philosophy of Law, the Philosophy of History, the Phenomenology of the Mind, then the Philosophy of Law again, and finally the Logic, the Natural Philosophy, and the Philosophy of the Mind, in a veritable intoxication of comprehension and delight.

One day when a young girl, towards whom I felt attracted, had asked me to go and say goodbye to her before her departure, I forgot the time, her journey, and my promise to her over my Hegel.

As I walked up and down my room, I chanced to pull my watch out of my pocket, and realized that I had missed my appointment, and that the girl must have started long ago.

Hegel's Philosophy of Law had a charm for me as a legal student, partly on account of the superiority with which the substantial quality of Hegel's mind is there presented, and partly on account of the challenge in the attitude of the book to accepted opinions and expressions, morality here being almost the only thing Hegel objects to.

But it was the book of Aesthetics that charmed me most of all.

It was easy to understand and yet weighty, superabundantly rich.

Again and again while reading Hegel's works, I felt carried away with delight at the new world of thought opening out before me.