{"id":159936,"date":"2019-07-30T21:20:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T04:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=159936"},"modified":"2019-07-30T21:23:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T04:23:26","slug":"beauty-over-truth-philosophy-aesthetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/30\/beauty-over-truth-philosophy-aesthetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty over Truth #philosophy #aesthetics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A thought:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no ultimate ‘truth’. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, to strive to search for ‘truth’ seems to be a waste of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another issue:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can strive to discover deeper self-knowledge about ourselves, and perhaps more ‘truthiness’ about the world. But all of this “truth” is subjective.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Then what are we to do with our lives?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A simpler goal: strive to make beautiful artworks<\/strong>. To determine whether something is beautiful in our eyes is far superior than to search for “truth”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The visual philosopher<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps we as photographers should better be seen as “visual philosophers<\/a><\/em><\/strong>“. We define beauty and judge beauty. We create beautiful art-images\/objects with our cameras, how we process our photos, and how we display our images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A thought: There is no ultimate ‘truth’. Furthermore, to strive to search for ‘truth’ seems to be a waste of time. Another issue: We can strive to discover deeper self-knowledge about ourselves, and perhaps more ‘truthiness’ about the world. But all of this “truth” is subjective. Then what are we to do with our lives? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/eric-kim-cindy-project-hanoi-eyes-800x530.jpg?fit=800%2C530&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159978,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159936\/revisions\/159978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}