Symmetric - Asymmetric correlation of the category "beauty" and the categories "truth"/"verity"

Abstract

The relevance of the studied issue is conditioned by the urgent society need for a more detailed design of the value and anti-value system in the aspect of philosophy, sociology, politics and linguistics. Earlier we offered the following universal system of conventional values reflected in the language (at the level of phraseology): 1. Life - Death. 2. Health - Disease - vital values and anti-values (< Latin vita - life, vitalis - vital). 3. Happiness - Misfortune - hedonistic / spiritual value and its disvalue (< Greek hedone - 'pleasure'). 4. Homeland - Foreign land - a sacred value and its disvalue. In philosophy, sacred - "a mysterious conquering force" which "inspires and makes happy at the same time" [FES: 407]. 5. Work - Rest. Idleness - social and utilitarian value and disvalue (< Latin socialis - a common, public, utilitarian < Greek utilitas - benefit, profit) [FES: 470]. 6. Wealth - Poverty - material and utilitarian value and disvalue. 7. Mind - Stupidity - intellectual and cognitive value and disvalue pointing a man intelligence (< lat. intellektus - mind, intellect), knowledge, cognition (< Latin cognitio - knowledge, cognition). 8. Truth - Lie - the moral and ethical value and disvalue. The doctrine of morality, morals represented by ethics (< Greek ethiká, from ethos - custom, moral character). 9. Laughter - Crying - emotional and utilitarian value and disvalue. They reveal the benefit of emotions (Laughter) or their harm (Crying) (< lat. emoveo - stun, excite;. < French émotion - excitement). 10. Paradise - Hell. Idioms of heaven and hell reflect the idea of religious values and disvalues [1]. The paper proposes a new dyad of value and disvalue associated with aesthetics: beauty - ugliness, absence of beauty. The aesthetic category of "beauty" is analyzed in correlation with the moral and ethical category of "truth" / "righteousness": symmetry at compliance; at non-compliance with the category of "truth" / "righteousness" (asymmetry).