May 21, 2026 · 15 min · 9 segments
This is an AI reading of my substack article found here: https://anglicanaesthetics.substack.com/p/anglican-arguments-for-gods-existence
In value, we at once catch the aromas of the good, the beautiful, and the true.
An act of kindness is valuable not merely because it is good nor merely because it is beautiful.
its value is, somehow, a unity of both.
Further, an act of kindness ennobles the whole of reality.
I would much rather live in a world where my niece gives her brother a toy out of love for him than a world in which that never happened.
We realize that a symphony is valuable, that a mother laughing with her baby is valuable, and that time with one's family is valuable.
Value denotes a kind of preciousness or betterness.
it is almost irreducible to any other fact than that the world is better off on account of possessing something valuable than if it were to never possess such a thing but if some things can be more valuable than other things and objectively so this supposes some objective standard of value to which things conform a baby cannot be more or less valuable than a rock unless there is a standard of value to which the baby conforms more when we think about what this standard of value might be there are certain features that it must unify.
Something is more valuable if it unifies the good and the beautiful, and therefore the Tao is characterized by the unity of the good and the beautiful.
Therefore, the Tao must be characterized by consciousness on account of which more or less potential exemplification of dimensions of consciousness confer value.
Saint Anselm of Canterbury says, Now that which exists through itself, and through which all other things exist, is the being that is supreme over all beings.
This, reason has just taught us.
Given that, either we can reverse the statement and say that the supreme being is that which exists through itself and through which all other things exist, or there exists more than one supreme being.
More than one topmost thing? Clearly not.
Therefore, there is some nature, or substance, or essence, which is good, great, and is what it is through itself.
And whatsoever truly is good, great, and a thing exists through it.
And it is the topmost good, the topmost great thing, the topmost being in reality.
That is, of all the things that exist, it is the supreme.
Value, furthermore, is one of those things that makes demands of us.
It is somehow unfitting to the aesthetic value of the Grand Canyon to simply stare at one's phone and play Candy Crush in its presence.
It is beneath the dignity of human nature to feel no more reverence for a human being than a human-shaped statue.
Value is one of those things that seems to bestow things with a character of design for a purpose.
In value, we at once catch the aromas of the good, the beautiful, and the true.
An act of kindness is valuable not merely because it is good nor merely because it is beautiful.
its value is, somehow, a unity of both.
Further, an act of kindness ennobles the whole of reality.
I would much rather live in a world where my niece gives her brother a toy out of love for him than a world in which that never happened.
We realize that a symphony is valuable, that a mother laughing with her baby is valuable, and that time with one's family is valuable.
Value denotes a kind of preciousness or betterness.
it is almost irreducible to any other fact than that the world is better off on account of possessing something valuable than if it were to never possess such a thing but if some things can be more valuable than other things and objectively so this supposes some objective standard of value to which things conform a baby cannot be more or less valuable than a rock unless there is a standard of value to which the baby conforms more when we think about what this standard of value might be there are certain features that it must unify.
Something is more valuable if it unifies the good and the beautiful, and therefore the Tao is characterized by the unity of the good and the beautiful.
Therefore, the Tao must be characterized by consciousness on account of which more or less potential exemplification of dimensions of consciousness confer value.
Saint Anselm of Canterbury says, Now that which exists through itself, and through which all other things exist, is the being that is supreme over all beings.
This, reason has just taught us.
Given that, either we can reverse the statement and say that the supreme being is that which exists through itself and through which all other things exist, or there exists more than one supreme being.
More than one topmost thing? Clearly not.
Therefore, there is some nature, or substance, or essence, which is good, great, and is what it is through itself.
And whatsoever truly is good, great, and a thing exists through it.
And it is the topmost good, the topmost great thing, the topmost being in reality.
That is, of all the things that exist, it is the supreme.
Value, furthermore, is one of those things that makes demands of us.
It is somehow unfitting to the aesthetic value of the Grand Canyon to simply stare at one's phone and play Candy Crush in its presence.
It is beneath the dignity of human nature to feel no more reverence for a human being than a human-shaped statue.
Value is one of those things that seems to bestow things with a character of design for a purpose.
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