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The aesthetic argument for god
The aesthetic argument is an argument by Plato for the existence of a transcendent realm of abstract ideas, which are more perfect than real-world examples of those ideas. Various observers have also argued that the experience of beauty is evidence of the existence of a God.
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Is beauty the path to God?
The most frequent invocation of the argument from beauty today involves the aesthetic experience one obtains from great literature, music or art. For many people the feeling of transcendence in a concert hall or museum approaches the religious in intensity.
Furthermore, scientists and philosophers often marvel at the congruence between nature & mathematics, which is often described as beautiful.
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Criticisms of the aesthetic argument
- The argument assumes beauty is something immaterial instead of being a subjective neurological response to stimuli.
- A person's talent is assumed to be god's work and not his own hard work. ("How dare another human being make such beautiful music/poetry/art when I can't? It must be God that did it")
- The existence of evil & various types of ugliness invalidates the argument. ("Didn't God also created parasitic microbes?")
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