2. The Ancient Greeks saw beauty and morality as fused. Socrates (Patrick jokingly alludes to this elsewhere) was famously ugly, but he stressed moral beauty. He was, in fact, the first person to say it’s your “inner beauty” that counts.
2. Once you just “say it as you see it” the illusions vanish and it seems intuitively obvious. This is what Heidegger means by having nature speak to us, I think. He also talk about an “unveiling”. Everything else is, admittedly sometimes useful, abstraction.
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3. This also chimes with Hindu and Buddhist ideas of the Maya, and the notion of modern physics that involves fields and, ultimately, the flux of energy—as Heraclitus suggested.
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"Darwin" and "nature" are also abstractions, concepts which map something of unmediated reality.
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Sure, but that’s not the point. The point is that there’s not some mysterious, inaccessible ideal and unchanging form “Darwin” that is inaccessible to us.
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There is an ideal of "nature," a materialistic struggle for existence, which accurately predicts/reflects part of material reality just as "triangle" or "horse" do.
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What’s your grounds for saying that?
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Saying what?
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“There is an ideal of "nature," a materialistic struggle for existence, which accurately predicts/reflects part of material reality just as "triangle" or "horse" do.“”” You just state it as a fact. I want to know why you believe it to be true.
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Well, what is it you are talking about when you say "nature"? Have you ever seen a Nature?
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Why do I need to see what I am?
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