Sunday, June 02, 2013

Can we have proportion and beauty in the political as in art?

If it is possible to have proportion and beauty in political order as it was conceived in classical architecture then political order is not only an empirical thing, it is also art, and seems to also call for the eye of the artist, at least the kind of artist who sees beauty in proportion and proportion in beauty.

Proportion and beauty are the blending of opposites and the ordering of different things, not merely by empirical mathematics but by artistic proportion. Although proportion has its own numbers, classical architect's adjusted proportion to fit the eye, not to fit the abstract facts in building the structure.

Thinking of a nation or world containing small states, or ethnostates, protected by a light but defensive federalism, with a variety of different groups and environments, and with the universal goal of materially evolving toward ascending levels of Godhood in their own particular ways---this seems like beautiful proportion to me, even before you track it down empirically, which you can also do with the science of sociobiology, which defines real human nature as primarily kin and ethnic centered.

Beauty and proportion are related to aesthetics whereas you track the good in the moral and philosophical fields, but if you think of Godhood the the zenith of beauty, truth and goodness, which we evolve to in the cosmos, then Godhood is where truth, beauty and goodness attain their connected proportion, blending together in absolute beauty. We head toward that in art and in politics.

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