饗宴

Concept

[THEME]
*Integration of objective and subjective

Do forms of beauty exist autonomously in the natural world, apart from human mental activity, or do people find beauty in objects that exist by chance and without meaning? I am not interested in the discrepancy between my image of events and the world and the reality, and since beauty is one of the above two no matter how I try to explain it, I can get lost in my daily life and avoid going too deeply into it without much difficulty if it is only a little mysterious. Nevertheless, the certainty that my image of beauty does not exist in reality sometimes makes me wobbly on my feet. The shock, anxiety, and shudder of not belonging to either of the possible worlds. Where did this notion come from? Is this really what I feel when I see, for example, a beautiful landscape or object? If philosophies about the existence of a priori things were still active today, would they have led us to the answers? Would the answers have strengthened the insecure ground? Whatever the case may be, it is clear that what I find beautiful does not exist as a concrete object. And yet, it is also clear that beauty exists in physical events that occur outside of oneself. Are these two contradictory or compatible, or are they the same thing, existing in the same dimension? It is more difficult to ignore this discrepancy. But the fact that identical things and dimensions turn out to be impossible, which is what I fear the most, somehow makes it impossible for me to do nothing. At least, in the hope that both are possible.