What are your opinions on the beauty of virtue and the deformity of vice? It has been suggested by many philosophers, both Eastern and Western, both religios and secular.
True, it involves those who are immoral to be ‘blind’ in some way, but is it not a common idea that we blind ourselves to that which is important through misplaced desire?
I know this line of reasoning is considered too simplistic by many philosophers, but why?
Bumping your post with solidarity. As my teachers told me, beauty is a criterion for truth. But as the neo-Platonist, Plotinus would ask, where do we get the love of beauty if not through remembrance of the Ultimate Beauty?
“‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’–That is all
Ye know of earth, and all ye need to know.”
– Keats
As for others, remember that there is sometimes beauty in simplicity. (That is, in unity.)
Those who don’t appreciate beauty may get their condition from…bad music?
Ahhh music! Indeed, for Confucius said, “Thrive with the Songs, establish stands with the rites, and accomplish with music.”
If I understood correctly, what your are asking is what my opinion is on why/if virtue seems better or more appealing than vice. In society, we learn from an early age to associate certain objects and actions with positive or negative feelings. We are taught that virtous actions, generally promoted by society, are good things, whereas those things looked down upon within one’s society and culture are bad and distasteful. It is not a perception we are born with, but one that is conditioned.
So then you’d argue for a complete tabula rasa? Is there nothing that is inborn?