Seven Roots to One Tree: A Question

5.07.2005

Does seeing beautiful things make you beautiful?

At 11:07 PM, Eric said...: I think that a person is accidentally beautiful when they perceive something beautiful.

To see why I say that, think about this: what if this same person became an ugly evil person when they no longer were looking at something beautiful? This seems to be self evidently possible, I've definitely seen it in myself. In what sense then were they beautiful before?

Thus, I think a person is only essentially beautiful when their vision of beauty is completely internalized so that they cannot potentially look away from it.

This is where the tricky part comes in. How can beauty become completely internalized? It cannot become so merely through habituation, since habits are not binding on a person. I think their will itself must become beautiful. Since ugliness cannot come from beauty, they will have no potentiallity for turning away from their vision of beauty.
At 10:55 PM, Possum said...: So, if I held someone's head such that they could only see something beautiful, would that be like internalizing the beauty?