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Merit, Aesthetic and Ethical.
Title:
Merit, Aesthetic and Ethical.
Author:
Eaton, Marcia Muelder.
ISBN:
9780195349887
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (261 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I. Aesthetic Experience And Aesthetic Properties -- One. What and Why Is Art? -- Two. Aesthetic Relevance -- Three. The Nature of Aesthetic Properties -- Four. Aesthetic Justification -- Part II. Taking The Aesthetic Seriously -- Five. The Separatist Mistake -- Six. Serious Problems, Serious Values: Aesthetic Dilemmas -- Seven. Aesthetics: The Mother of Ethics? -- Part III. Integrating Aesthetic And Moral Value -- Eight. The Aesthetic Life -- Nine. Sentimental Art and Sentimental People -- Ten. Art's Moral Lessons -- Eleven. Deliberation Aesthetic and Ethical -- Part IV. Consequences -- Twelve. Aesthetics and Ethics in the Environment -- Thirteen. Aesthetics and Ethics in Communities -- Fourteen. Aesthetics and Ethics in Education -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
To "look good" and to "be good" have traditionally been held to be two very different things. Philosophers have seen aesthetic and ethical values as fundamentally separate. This work introduces a notion of merit in which "being good" and "looking good" are integrated into one.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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