Form and content is a big issue in art and aesthetics.
Form without proper content might lead to aestheticism where form is considered most important. And naturally a good content behind a bad form is not considered seriously.
Hegel wanted to see form as highest content...
Anyway, any form / content consideration must think of proper expressions of both, form and content thus pointing to both, the meaning of formalism and aestheticism. And they have a meaning in real life indeed. We see that clearly in the fields of relation of both, humans and a deity.
Someone feels he loves his wife no more. He doesn´t want to break up but has hope in formalism. He askes her to have a hair cut, shave her pussy, wear lingery, have a nice perfume.
In such formalism he hopes saving his relation. Only a few look for content related considerations...
In religious and spiritual fields we see similar form relations. There is always a big fraction of those deeply loving liturgy, formal prayers, regulated behaviour, common approaches to a deity or dogma.
Thus they hope creating a common scense amd peace among people. It is formalism letting a dogma survive, not necessarily a content consideration. Unity demands formalism, and not seldom it is considered and perceived above truth, which would need a content relation.
Do we propagate to throw away any form. Do we claim form as not being important? No, no, no. We claim a proper relation of both. Hegel saw a dialectical relation in it. None of both is higher or lesser than the other, they belong to each other like male and female. Form and content is an expression of 3d, and it will not fade away by simply substituting 3d for 4d or 5d.
it will remain a stimulant of motion, a motion being essential to everything that lives...
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