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- Stage: bud 🌿
- Type: note
- Topics: philosophy spirituality humanism being
Truth, beauty, and goodness are interconnected ideals representing fundamental virtues of reality and human experience, where truth refers to authentic understanding or alignment with reality, beauty embodies harmony and aesthetic resonance, and goodness signifies moral integrity and compassionate action. Together, these principles guide individuals toward a holistic, meaningful, and flourishing life.
Spiritual Origins
Platonism
- referred to as forms or ideas which are perfect, eternal and immaterial essences of things
- the good, the highest form and source of all others
- the true, relating to knowledge and reality
- the beautiful, that which stirs love and admiration
Christianity
- God is often described as embodying truth, goodness, and beauty
Buddhism
- pursuit of truth (dharma)
- goodness (ethical conduct and compassion)
- beauty (harmony and balance)
Hinduism
- three main attributes of the divine
- satyam (truth)
- shivam (goodness)
- sundaram (beauty)
Neoplatonism
- single source from which all existence emanates and is ordered
- the source is good, from it flows the intellect (which perceives and orders universe, relating to the true), and the soul (which in its highest form, appreciates and creates beauty)
Ken Wilber
- three main dimensions of human existence
- interdependent, but need to be balanced and harmonized
- art (beautiful), science (true), morals (good)
- complementary ways of exploring and expressing reality
- don’t try to reduce the good and beautiful to the true
- the truth is beautiful