Thomas Fleming (Chronicles, June 2015)
wrote of how Marxist teachers and Misesians libertarians, who preach
that art is merely subjective, and that beauty is only in the eye of
the beholder, will still turn their heads to watch a pretty girl go
by. But then good conservatives eventually depart from that glimpse
of truth and beauty in art and abandon the physical, the material, as
they define the highest beauty, truth, and God, as non-material and
spiritual.
It is the living material object which
evolves toward the living supermaterial objects of Godhood on an
evolutionary material and supermaterial continuum. A Great Spiritual Blockade is put up by traditional religion and philosophy where both
beauty and truth depart from the real world.
The beauty of the girl mentioned above
can be expanded in understanding beauty moving toward the zenith of
beauty and truth reached in Godhood by way of the evolution of life
from the ugly to the beautiful. Physical desire is made sublime, but not non-material, as
the path of material evolution leads toward supermaterial Godhood.
That is how art and truth are defined
in theological materialism and the Twofold Path. Evolutionary realism in art seeks to follow this philosophy. The highest art
remains the affirmation of the sacred.
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