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Elaboration on value-attitude, further described in “The Greatest Gift” Ch. II.
It is not wrong for a child to take greatest joy in having some candy, but the child should nonetheless strive for higher values, until upon maturing, they ought to take greatest joy from something less shallow.
Finding an optimal way to perform the act of valuation - looking at a painting from a side and from afar would make the subjective experience of beauty . But there is an optimal perspective for the experience of beauty and also of ugliness in the experience of the same painting - there isn't one optimum, but many local optima. Each bearer of values has their own local optima, depending on their subjective circumstances. It can't be said that beauty is better than ugliness. Then there's a value-attitude the bearer of values may have performing the act of valuing.
"I may be, as a botanist, delighted by the beauty of a flower, but this delight is not the main action, when I am in the attitude of getting to know it in observation and determining it in classification. Once I am finished with [observing and determining], then, in turn, instead of the theoretical attitude, now the aesthetical joy, which went alongside, may become the main action; and hence I am now in the aesthetic attitude, in that of the heart, instead of in the theoretical attitude, that of the understanding." ― Hussrel, Hua VIII, 101
Elaboration on value-attitude, further described in “The Greatest Gift” Ch. II.
It is not wrong for a child to take greatest joy in having some candy, but the child should nonetheless strive for higher values, until upon maturing, they ought to take greatest joy from something less shallow.
Finding an optimal way to perform the act of valuation - looking at a painting from a side and from afar would make the subjective experience of beauty . But there is an optimal perspective for the experience of beauty and also of ugliness in the experience of the same painting - there isn't one optimum, but many local optima. Each bearer of values has their own local optima, depending on their subjective circumstances. It can't be said that beauty is better than ugliness. Then there's a value-attitude the bearer of values may have performing the act of valuing.
"I may be, as a botanist, delighted by the beauty of a flower, but this delight is not the main action, when I am in the attitude of getting to know it in observation and determining it in classification. Once I am finished with [observing and determining], then, in turn, instead of the theoretical attitude, now the aesthetical joy, which went alongside, may become the main action; and hence I am now in the aesthetic attitude, in that of the heart, instead of in the theoretical attitude, that of the understanding." ― Hussrel, Hua VIII, 101
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