Does the beauty and majesty of the natural world need to be tied to a higher or more spiritual force to be truly understood? Why or why not?
Does the beauty and majesty of the natural world need to be tied to a higher or more spiritual force to be truly understood? Why or why not?
Introduction
Beauty is a subjective psychological experience unique to every individual. Beauty resides in the thoughts and psyche, not in the object on scenario being observed. That is why it is often said, “Beauty lies in eyes of beholder” Somebody else might look at the same thing and not see beauty there by any means. There is absolutely no lucid rationalization to believe that because you believe something is beautiful, it should be linked to a divine supernatural power or force.
Discussion
Nature is just beautiful to people who believe it to be magnificent. One can explore a particular object or experience with several dimensions. A person can find beauty in watching a lion hunt a deer while others might find the same scenario displeasing and despicable. It all depends on perspective and viewpoints. The argument from beauty is a well-known premise used by theists; those seem appealing to the existence of beauty as a meta-physical aspect that cannot be rationalized by materialistic dynamics. They claim that beauty could only originate from divine and supernatural Supreme Being like God.
The argument by theists insinuates that beauty actually is reflection of divinity rather than being a subjective neurological response to stimuli. The major downside of the dispute from beauty tends to be that it ignores the logic that the idea of beauty and magnificence is a cognitive sensation which is simply explained with regards to evolutionary principles and neurological models of sensory processing. Moreover it ignores virtually all the non beautiful as well as absolutely unappealing things in the world. Besides that, there exists no impeccable standard of natural beauty and the perception of exquisiteness is utterly illusory, even though we probably have grown to share a lot of our perceptions of exquisiteness in common. In the argument a interconnection between divine providence and that which is believed to be beautiful, irrespective of whether it be natural beauty or a masterpiece of art work, is merely believed to be self evident. There is no one who ever attempts to offer the reasoning behind this argument
Philosophers like Immanuel Kant significantly claim that ...