The value of life as I see it is twofold, namely in these two conditions that it causes:
1 - the necessity of exploration
2 - the acquisition of courage.
From this microsequence, all justifying phenomena and pathos can be seen to follow; love requires courage, and how honesty requires love, etc - but the consequences fan out too quickly to keep the thing elegant; the first two are sufficient for an entirely justified existence.
[size=95]<< Exploration and courage; together these create nothing less than a world where there is no choice but to love; the term that has the best claim to define the direct consequences of courage, is beauty. Not the eyes of the beholder, but the nuanced inner nature of the object produces what we perceive as beauty, on whichever level - a beautiful psyche is a well honed entity that has by courageous exploration acquired the quality of honesty. All such qualities are necessary to make a human psyche capable of allowing itself fully into itself. All the steps after the first two are parallel to other steps, and the process beyond courage can never be explicated stage wise except in how the life actually unfolds, I refer to Bergson’s explanation of why the present can not be reduced to the past. >>[/size]