Is it even permissible, today, to please yourself?

Question raised by the bridge example about whether contemporary society allows genuine self-pleasing.

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Truly pleasing ourselves is not shameful. It is transcendent.
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The moral revaluation: what society treats as self-indulgence is actually the path to transcendence.

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To please yourself, you may have to make a thing in which God is visible.claim0.818
The troubling consequence of true self-pleasing: it produces beauty so deep it reveals the divine, which makes modern people uncomfortable.
Making something that truly pleases requires hundreds of subtle judgments, each extracting what pleases more within the whole.claim0.785
From the West Dean experience: the north wall alone required approximately 500 such judgments.
Pleasing yourself and doing what is right are one and the same.claim0.782
The most radical claim of the chapter: the subjective and the ethical are identical at the deepest level.
If we can only learn how to please ourselves, that prescription by itself will always create living structure.hypothesis0.773
The conditional claim that true self-pleasing is sufficient for generating living structure in all cases.
Pleasing Yourselfconcept0.767
The core prescription of the chapter: making what truly pleases you at the deepest level, which Alexander argues is the key to creating all living structure and the path to the I.
People do not know—emotionally—how to please themselves. In part, they are prevented by society. And in part, they are prevented by themselves, by their inner thought police.claim0.761
Diagnosis of why living structure is absent from the world: a failure of emotional knowledge enforced by social and internal constraints.
Pleasing oneself, when it is truly done, leads to the most sublime, the most profound, the most truly spiritual art.claim0.759
Alexander claims that true pleasing oneself is identical to the path intended by the greatest religious teachers.
In order to create living structure, we must please ourselves.claim0.756
The central thesis of the chapter: pleasing yourself is the necessary and sufficient prescription for creating living structure.