I suspect there is something about enjoying natural beauty which could be dishonest if it denies other stuff, but I inhabit a religous world which values cutting though grasping at hope and fear......so perhaps my current experience of romantic aesthetics is slightly warped.
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I’d make a lousy philosopher and know nothing about the history of romantic thought. I’m curious what you think about this, and whether you know of anyone who has written about this in an impactful/clear way
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It’s too easy to just relax into a particular way of being, and I’m not ready to stop pretending that other schools of thought might have something interesting to say about the various pitfalls of inhabiting a human meat sack.
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Embarrassed to say that much of my understanding comes from David McMahon’s and Thanissaro Bikkhu’s critiques of the Romanticization of modern Buddhism https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/rootsofbuddhistromanticism.html …
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Thanks David, I’m quite sure I’ve never read Thanissaro Bikkhu’s critique before.
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Of course! Thanks for the reminder Ryan, adding to a list
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Charles Taylor has already been mentioned in this thread, but what you want is "The Ethics of Authenticity" which is 1/10th the length of Secular Age, and is extremely readable. This is a really, really great book! http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=7C31067F2CA96B8CB3F8661CA680B656 …
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Thanks for the recommendation Toby
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This was the first thing I thought of as well - couldn’t remember the episode
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