Symmetry = order.
Proportionality = sacrifice of symmetry to functionality.
Life finds this beautiful.
Beauty = symmetry/proportionality, relative to a survival and reproductive objective, indicating superior probabilities, within an expanding field of possibilities ([size=85]space/time[/size]).
Symmetry, indicating resistance to flux, and to chaos.
Proportionality indicating functional potentials - fitness, ability to perform, given a specific survival and reproductive strategy - species.
The common concept is probability, relative to an objective, which in the case of life the primal, primary, objective is survival - reproduction is an extension necessitated by mortality.
Language = form of communication.
All life communicates, beginning with plants.
The body constantly communicates unbeknownst to the mind, e.g. pheromones, electromagnetic aura, scents, textures, colourations, gestures etc.
Language begins as vocalizations, communicating mental states.
This is the beginning of art.
We hear it in the songbird’s song.
Art is libidinal energies expunging themselves using a medium such as light, air, stone etc. A product of excess.
Two types of needs.
Need, as the sensation of lack.
Desire, the sensation of excess.
Desire is the byproduct of need, if consistently and successfully satisfied.
These excess energies are stored as stress, for the fight/flight mechanism later evolving the heterosexual method of expunging them - libidinal.
Art evolves as additional method of expunging libidinal energies.
Two general kinds of art:
Art representing world.
Art representing the artist’s reaction to world.
Exoteric or Esoteric.
Or a mixture of the two.
We can trace these two types across all fields of artistry, including philosophy, using language as its artform.
So, we have philosophies that represent the world, and philosophies that represent man’s reaction to the world.
Philosophies that describe and explore the real world; philosophies that explore how man processes, collects, analyzes, reacts, or ought to, to achieve specific goals.
Or a mixture of the two.