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Originally Posted by Takuin Minamoto  If you didn't have the ideal at all, how would you see things? What would then be beautiful? |
Either everything, or more likely, nothing.
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Originally Posted by Takuin Minamoto How is our ideal generated in the first place? What is the thing that creates it? |
Yourself. It's a component of one's perspective: an ideal is that which we desire, but do not have, nor expect. So, when one encounters something beautiful, they are surprised to see so much of what they desire. Even when you anticipate beauty, what actually invokes the experience of it is the astonishment that it exists at all.