“There is something between wisdom and foolishness. It is correct judgment, which is correct even without being able to justify it. Do you not know that this is neither knowledge—for how can something we cannot justify be knowledge?—nor ignorance, for how can something that hits the mark be ignorance? Such is correct judgment, midway between cleverness and ignorance.” “Lovers of wisdom are situated between the wise and the ignorant.” Plato, Symposium 202a
“Omens, premonitions, and warnings pass through our bodies day and night like waves. (…) Every morning, the new day lies on our bed like a freshly ironed shirt; the fabric of pure prophecy, finer and denser than anything else, fits us as if it had been poured over us. The luck of the next twenty-four hours depends on whether we can put it on when we wake up. Walter Benjamin: One-Way Street
Parmenides writes in his work On Nature: what has been born or will be born does not exist. Visible birth and death are not real, because everything is one, belongs together, and is in constant connection with the soul. Klee writes that art does not depict, but makes visible, where the beginning and end of the process are unknown.
So it is worth living in the moment, based on the nature of the soul. This labyrinth leads to self-knowledge. Upwards and inwards, in soul and body at the same time.
We cannot exist without relationships. According to Merleau-Ponty, we can confirm ourselves through each other’s gaze, we can become true in front of others.
Everything happens in the present, everything passes. It is a transitional, intermediate state between the past that has already happened and the next unmanifested moment.
The visualization of spiritual events as aesthetic phenomena seems contradictory. Yet Agamben explains in his work Taste that opinion-forming is a different kind of knowledge that arises between the invisibility of truth (knowledge) and the invisible truth (beauty).
“Aesthetic experience is also a way of self-understanding… in the experience of art, a real experience takes place that changes the person who performs it,” Bacsó quotes Gadamer, thus confirming the perfect role of art, our spiritual journey towards knowledge, and then continues: “If a person understands their own existence and where they stand in relation to themselves, then the response elicited by the work can create the continuity needed to understand who they are and how they are, precisely in the spirit of aesthetic experience and as a result of it… In what we live, here and now, he continues, ‘what seems to be is nothing more than what carries the soul’s movement towards and beyond the visible, that is, in the Greek sense of Metaxu, man projected into this intermediate field.
János Kalmár