Actually I wrote it following my feeling, I am not sure if the teacher finds it awkward or not, even I personally think it would not to bad, and it is philosophy course, so it should be ok . Anw, I don’t care much, the most important thing is I am happy and satisfy with what I did. That is enough, and it makes schooling becomes more interesting and more meaningful.
The requirement asks me to write my own opinion about the beauty or about the art. So here is what I wrote:
A beauty of life
I was very hesitant to write your midterm report of my own opinion about “beauty”. Then one day while thinking about my own inner life, I found out I want to write about “a beauty” of life.
What is beautiful life? What definition others people give to it? I don’t know. I think I got the answer for myself, not too long ago, but I still see that I am very lucky to find it.
As Kant said that in order to decide something is beautiful we must use the imagination to feel the pleasure or displeasure of it. A pleasure is an interested emotion that seeks some kind of satisfaction from the object. In another words, to make a judgment of a beauty of life we have to look at a satisfaction, or it is the way we perceive our life.
When you got satisfy with your life?
To me, it has nothing to do with money, with reputation, with social status… I was first very clear about it when I was 25 years old, when I saw it is nonsense when someone wastes all their youth time and energy to fight for money, then when they got 40-50 years old with abundant of money, they continue fight for their reputation and social status. I kept questioning myself about the goal of my life. Then I found out the purpose of my life is the happiness and at that time I thought I could only fulfill my life and got satisfy with the happiness.
Until recently, I realized that my viewpoint about the life changed. I realized every experience in my life is precious equally, no matter it brings me a pleasure or displeasure, and I treasure it all. I did not seek for the happiness goal anymore, but somehow I felt easier to be happy than before.
Now look back what I learned from your course, it is what Kant mentions that the beauty has to be understood without any definite purpose, without the conceptual intent or will, isn’t it? My judgment of the beauty of life works through my feeling and happens when I even don't seek for the concept of beautiful life, or the goals of a beautiful life must have. It is true that life in itself is so beautiful that to ask, the question of the meaning of life or the goals of life is simply nonsense.
Nevertheless, I understand that life is a journey; maybe at this moment I think it is true, but at different moment I will find it is not. However, I think both are true, with myself at a specific moment of my life.
To conclusion, I want to put it here Osho’s words:
“Don't try to understand life. Live it!
Don't try to understand love. Move into love.
Then you will know - and all that knowing will come out of your experiencing. The more you know, the more you know that much remains to be known.”
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P/S: I just found this 2 mins ago when I type “ the beauty of life philosophy” to see how others wrote about it.
“She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.”
God, its absolutely me at this period of my life. I gotta read The Wanderess of Roman Payne.
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