Eldraeic Words of the Day: Talisqor, Aelvaqor, and Alathqor

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@Specialist290 <carpentereli@outlook.com> on 2017-07-20 19:53:09 wrote

A couple questions:

First, echoing the unanswered comment in the Slate Star Codex link: What of “Goodness” / “Virtue” – the third leg in the classical triad of transcendental values?

Second: What would the eldrae make of the notion that – as was common in much classical and medieval thought here on Earth (cf. Medieval Theories of Aesthetics | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Beauty (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) ) – not only is there an Absolute Beauty such that any perfectly rational creature with perfect knowledge who encountered an object instantiated with its properties must necessarily recognize that it is perfectly beautiful (and therefore that any sophont that doesn’t recognize it as not merely beautiful but The Most Beautiful X Possible Anywhere-and-When must necessarily be either imperfectly informed or imperfectly rational, and in either case objectively wrong); but that such a standard must necessarily exist in order for Beauty to have any meaning as a concept whatsoever?