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Real Experience of Beauty
"In the psychology of the Victorines, the joy felt in experiencing sensuous harmony was a prolongation of physical pleasure [ital. mine]; it was rooted in the affective life and grounded in an ontologically real correspondence between the structure of the mind and the structure of matter." Umberto Eco Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages
Cosmos Today
Neither a Platonist, nor an Aristotelian Be!
The truth is not hidden behind anything as in Plato and all of the sciences which harbor the same assumption of truth "behind the scenes" (Quantum Mechanics, Neuroscience, Sociobiology). Truth is given all at once and in its entirety now, and there is nothing left over.
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Immediate Primacy of Truth to Human Perception
When we open our eyes, we see things as they really are---in truth. The squirrel is a squirrel, water is water. Tearing open things through mathematical analysis (quantum mechanics) does not get us closer to truth. The truth is given immediately in "perception". Imagining that there is a transcendent source for this chipmunk, does not enhance the immediate apprehension of the chipmunk. Nor does any other type of discourse which promises to tell us more about the "true being" of this chipmunk. It is not by "going out" of our vision, but rather by penetration that truth is allowed.