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Is it possible for us free-willed individuals to learn the dangers and harmonies of aesthetic beauty?
If God is the creator of all things, then intrinsically a thing cannot be bad. However, good can be used for bad, just as all things can be used for good or bad. The complexity of beauty itself is what makes it perceived as such; just as the foundation of the divine complexes the human understanding. Although God is beauty, as well as the creator of all things, our humanly flesh can distort this harmonious purity to its hedonically sinful benefit.
Is Aesthetic Beauty Hedonic Principle?
Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting. – Proverbs 31:30
As Solomon once said above, charm and beauty are short-term and pleasurable. Beauty and charm in itself are not bad, rather it leads down a road to bad (sin.) There are two choices that processed during an objectively beautiful experience: Can I use this for myself, or can I use this to further my relationship with God? An example of choice could be how beauty can serve yourself or others through magnificent giving or magnificent greed. This is a choice of the self or the service.
Just as God is the foundation of all creation, beauty is better utilized the deeper you dig. This goes with relationships, as the more emotionally charged the depth of conversation is, the more likely a relationship will last. Or how one can marvel over a bird and then learn to love a bird more through the research of intricate mechanics.
Beauty draws you in short-term but becomes self-sufficient through the process of getting down to the roots of the aesthetic.
The more surface level you allow beauty to stay, the more hedonic the act becomes. Just as a significant other may draw you in first by looks, but the love is built through conversation and emotion. If you do not dig deeper than the looks, the good/harmony/beauty will dissolve, and transform into evil/danger/sin.
Everything is made good, but is distorted by evil.
We can take this all the way back to Adam & Eve, as fruit foundationally isn’t evil, but was used for evil via the curious mind. You would be a fool to say that knowledge is evil, referring to the fact that the fruit prospered the “knowledge of good and evil.”
Conclusion
Our beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. 4 Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. – 1 Peter 3:3-4
Obj. Evil can be a founding principle of certain objects.
This objection can be objected in one way: God is good. If God is good, then he cannot create evil. The sinful act against the good is what creates the evil. Therefore, beauty is good but can be distorted by the fleshly evil of humanly sin.
One must learn how to dig as deep as possible into a first-observed aesthetic beauty, as the more surface level you are with creation, the farther away from the foundation of God you are. One cannot describe how a tree stands tall, without using a shovel to find the foundation. The same goes as one cannot get closer to the foundation of good by being fleshly-entranced by aesthetic beauty.
The more you look into beauty, the more complex you will see the design. Which therefore allows for an appreciation of such beauty, which is tied hand-in-hand with God’s natural and divine design of creation.
As marriages do not last without depth, humans do not eternally last without the divine dig.
