a êthos mystéthikos - Chapter 23 (From the work in progress: The Poetized Critique) By M. Santos
IS NATURAL BEAUTY NOT ETHICAL? So far, our work has been motivated to make this approximation of such complex concepts successful, in addition to demonstrating the theoretical sustainability of mysthesis, based on what we define as the step of returning from the metaphysics of ethics to the metaphysics of the beautiful. From now on, we will recapitulate some essential fundamentals that assure us that we have not incurred in mere empty prolixism. An ancient Chinese aphorism, authored anonymously, tells us that the spirit of the void (wuji) is pregnant with galaxies, human beings and history. Being empty is like having the whole universe inside you. An empty circle is the diagram that represents (wuji), which is the monistic aspect of the absolute, as the dualistic aspect is represented by the yin-yang diagram. The wuji diagram was first introduced by Song dynasty philosopher Zhou Dunyi (周敦頤, 1017–1073) in his work Taijitu shuo, 太極圖說. The modern Taoist canon, compiled during the Mi...