Survey says: Most common form of "awe" = "moral beauty". 🤔
And so then I was like, well, what even is that? And I looked it up. According to stoicism, moral beauty is virtue and moral excellence. So this excellence is supposed to be so vast and transcend our understanding, our current understanding of the world. And when I look at it from that perspective, I'm like, what does that really say about us? Our own virtue and moral excellence?
Jeremiah Myer
@Jeremiah73 · 4:27
You. Hi. Yeah, that response is very interesting. I would have never thought of that as a response to that question. Awe is such a complex word that I can understand, understand that that could be one of its definitions, but certainly not one that comes to my mind quickly at all. When I think of awe, I tend to think of it with a thought toward the supernatural. But certainly the word and the feelings that the word conjures up are extremely complex
My dad was a very religious man, and when he would use the word awesome, he would emphasize the first syllable. And he always said it with such reverence. His eyes would well up and he had this feeling of, at least from the outside, you could see the joy. But at the same time, for lack of a better word, awe. Right. And it was always tied to his faith, to God, and to the awe he felt or experienced around that