philosophical aesthetic

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Mathematics and (the mathematical) sciences sees the world as "perfect" harmony.

Equations such as 1 + 1 = 2 assert an operational "order" in the world and essentially construct the world as a symmetric reality. Precisely, a universe which follows the rules of unchanging flow.

This is not the aesthetic of philosophy.

I assert that this preoccupation with the "order" of equality of mathematics and the mathematical sciences is a mere re-edification of the "numerical aesthetic." That mathematics simply boils down to an aesthetic of essences.

What then is the aesthetic of philosophy?


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I remember my piano teacher of old. She always picked the more harmonic songs- the entertainer, nocturne in e flat, the hallelujah chorus, the flight of the bumblebee (though this is not particularly harmonic), and etc.

It was the day I became a "musician".

Thanks to Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, a song that has a part wherein a "clash" occurs. It always caught my attention and its mystique never seemed to lose its impact on me. It is from this experience of the clash I called myself a philosophical musician as opposed to a mathematical musician. Where 2 musical notes with an asymptotic relationship with each other are played simultaneously, that is philosophical music. I think my teacher seemed to catch up on this odd taste of mine.

*try listening to it! It should sound like the background music when a psycho-killer in movies plunge their knives unto their (normally female) victims.

Because philosophy is in the (philein) love/affiliation of/to (sophia) wisdom- that which is eternal- all philosophy can do to that which it contemplates is to approach it asymptotically. To study what is (essentially) involves an admittance of limitation. All philosophy can do is to "clash" with wisdom and to proclaim our humility in its characteristics of imperfection and particularity.


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Musically, when a clash happens, the initial constitution of the note uttered before the clash is strengthened by the emergence of that which is asymptotically beside it. The secondary note that approached the initial note on the other hand, is paradoxically endangered of its own constitution. It's ever shaking character always seeks to dissolve itself unto that it clashes with or turn away from it and pronounce its irresolute character.

In that moment of the ever approaching relationship within the clash, harmonies seems to escape the registry of the "unmusician."

Much like being a philosopher, it is the taste for this "difficult harmony", a harmony that endangers the constitution of one's self only to eventually be subsumed unto wisdom (which is eternal since it came before and will come after us) or we would need to further pronounce our short-handedness and irresolute character with regard to that already identified prepositional note, the eternal. All the philosopher can do is to strengthen the eternal by endangering him/herself in front of it.

And as for the "unphilosophical," don't fret because the philosophical can't even begin to comprehend why they can't reach and far more, how to begin to approach the eternal. The eternal is like a rainbow which when we try to take agrasp, it seems to escape tangibility. All that we hope to achieve is to "fall into place" in harmony within our own capacity to pronounce our resonance, immortalize ourselves in Aristotle's language, only in uncertain relation to the eternal.

What then do we make out of the mathematical?


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Be prepared to eventually be philosophical!

* By the way, I'm changing my rules! HAHAHAHAHA! I timed this blog because my blogs are getting deeper so I needed to increase the number of words to 700. :D