The Great Myth of the Greeks

Shila goes back to the cantian principle that if we are rational and harmonious, then we can live in a united creative world. This is not very convincing, but the general direction of it is fairly clear - artists obey rules of their own making. They invent the rules, and they invent the objects. The material may be given by nature, but everything else is given by them. And therefore, because life doesn't offer us these things, because what we discover in the universe is nothing but a grim, causal treadmill, we must invent our own ideals. These ideals, because they are invented, are in some sense in opposition to nature in some sens, not part of her,