2007-06-05 14:34:46 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
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I doubt flowers know what satisfaction is.
2007-06-05 14:43:48 · update #1
Comment:
I never thought about that sophist.
2007-06-05 14:44:54 · update #2
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That poetry methaphor is not philosopy, ya know.
2007-06-05 14:46:32 · update #3
Sophist, you not seeing the methaphor in the question, I guess.
So you won't get best answer.
2007-06-05 14:47:08 · update #4
Beauty is a human value. The flower does not struggle to be beautiful but presentable to the pollinator.
2007-06-05 14:43:34 · answer #1 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same reason a castaway throws a message in a bottle even though he doesn't know if it will actually reach another person. He hopes that there may be some small miniscule chance that someone else will read it and realize that the castaway exists and will be remembered. A flower wishes to be beautiful to be recognised and noted for it's beauty by people, bees, etc. And hopefully, it will be immortalised, whether in the form of an ode by a poet or having it's pollen transferred to another flower and hopefully be able to live on again.
2007-06-06 15:37:05 · answer #2 · answered by Dr. Psychosis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The flower strives to become beautiful to attract the bee that brings the pollen, so it can reproduce. Once reproduction has been completed and the young seedlings are created the flower withers away and dies. You know out with the old and in with the new!
2007-06-05 23:50:43 · answer #3 · answered by tonal9nagual 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A flower doesn't strive to be beautiful. It is already beautiful even before it bloomed. It was just covered and then when it broke through, its beauty was seen.
Everything that comes up must come down. So the beautiful flower degenerates and dies. Cause beauty isn't forever.
2007-06-05 21:58:55 · answer #4 · answered by Rhabdite 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The flower strive to become beautiful in order to attract birds/insects to pollinate it. Then it withers away to give birth to a bunch of seeds.
Edit: You need a better metaphor.
2007-06-05 21:58:18 · answer #5 · answered by Chivalrous Chubbu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To grace themselves for everyone to enjoy. Life is like that we strive each of us to be appealing knowing one day we will wither and die. Flowers are a lot like humans to have strong limbs and a magnificent flower. We as humans strive for a strong body and a beautiful face . But we grow older, wrinkled skin hanging on to that flower.
2007-06-05 21:51:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not the withering away that the flower cares about.
It's that intense instant of beauty, the moment of satisfaction that it strives for. To have that intense moment of truth and beauty would be worth withering away. It's about the moment.
For is that not what we all do?
-MrC
2007-06-05 22:24:37 · answer #7 · answered by Mr. Caucasian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all things beautiful die. The strives to be beautiful to get a true feeling of beauty. Once it is sattisfied with the beauty is posseses it withers away.
2007-06-05 21:37:59 · answer #8 · answered by lippypout 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a lesson for us. We should not just be obsessed with temporary things(no matter how beautiful) because in the end they wither and die, rather we should seek that which is eternal.
2007-06-06 00:13:11 · answer #9 · answered by HerbalMix 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No flower chooses to be beautiful (or ugly); neither does a weed. They just fulfill the measure of their creation! I wish we could be so unworried about our beauty or lack thereof!
2007-06-05 22:05:25 · answer #10 · answered by Lolly P 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋