The beauty in Life

The following is a story about all the trials and triumphs of life. It tells of the adventures, the travels, the different dimensions. This is the telling of a wondrous thing. A thing made so perfect in the midst of the universe. The Greeks described the heavenly movement of the heavens as the best example of the beautiful. It is a study of art and awareness. However, it is as much a tale of real life events and occurrences, just as much as it is a written tale meant to incite the imagination. Who indeed can separate the writing of a story or tale from the actual real life events which are going on in the author’s life? Every action is necessarily preceded and followed by another action, in a seemingly endless chain of consecutive events. All occurring at the exact seam time all across the universe, or rather, occurring at completely different times, but on a level which makes them all appear as if they are all happening and working together to form the basis of an existence which we humans tend to call – reality. It continues onward into the ever expanding reaches of space, and flows forever forward through the mystifying existence of the space-time continuum.

To tie this back into our class discussion, and a little bit of art history, we turn to a German philosopher from the 18th century. In Georg Hegel’s “The Philosophy of Fine Art”, he states very adamantly that a beautiful, manmade work of art is of higher rank than any product of nature. He firmly believed that in order for something to be truly beautiful, it must be endowed with the mind and spirit of man. For this reason everything which has undergone the passage through the human mind, such as a work of art, is better than any element of nature. My argument is that although man has created many works of art which are considered to be beautiful, nothing man could ever create will be as truly beautiful as nature. I believe that nature provides the best examples of beauty in our world and therefore, as human beings we owe it to ourselves to do our best to capture that beauty in works of art. Hegel claims that nothing can be beautiful unless it is the product of a conscious human mind, but I believe that it is the human mind which is the key to seeing the overwhelming beauty found in nature.