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Aesthetics and Ethics 3 Years, 2 Months ago
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Are aesthetics and ethics classified under axiology because they are different ways of experiencing value? It seems to me that aesthetics expresses the value we place on an entitiy's appearance and ethics expresses the value we place on an entitiy's existence. Another person may have a pleasing appearance or a worthy existence or both. .We assign the world with a combination of aesthetic and ethical values. A sunset or a gourmat meal may evoke aesthetic pleasure but can't provoke ethical treatment of their existence. Most living creatures have a worthy existence for us but they all don't have a pleasant appearance.
Unfortunately, people tend to trump aesthetics over ethics. Pretty people get better treatment and may be considered to have a worthier existence. It is more difficult to claim aesthetic value in something just because we consider it ontologically valuable, e.g., frogs toads, and bats. Sometimes monetary value affects our assessment of aesthetic and ethical value. For example, rich people or rare objects may be evaluated as superior because of the money involved.
I'm probably stating the obvious in this thread, but we tend to overlook it when interacting with others.
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Re: Aesthetics and Ethics 3 Years, 2 Months ago
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I suspect, psychologically, that the two are fundamentally enmeshed.
We think pretty people are smarter, better leaders, more worthy of attention; we make more negative ethical judgements when we smell gross smells; a large (or perhaps the entirety) part of the activity of concocting ethical theories consists in making them aesthetically appealing in the form of simple rules, etc., etc.
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Re: Aesthetics and Ethics 3 Years, 2 Months ago
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I tend to think there is a close relationship between aesthetic and ethical values and that the latter are a subset of the former. But some values are greater than others, as well. So the problem is when we ignore where we are on the map. Hartshorne uses the following as a map of aesthetic values:
[img]http://i723.photobucket.com/albums/ww231/LJTSG/hartshornediagram.jpg" />
I think that moral values are somewhere on that map. The problem is when we give up the sublime for the pretty or the superb for the essentially commonplace.
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Re: Aesthetics and Ethics 3 Years, 2 Months ago
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Well, technically speaking, wouldn't aesthetic value be a contingent of one's ethics? It's not unethical to place higher value on something beautiful for aesthetic reasons, it's just opperating out of a different ethic. Kierkegaard's aesthetic sphere of life is a type of ethic in itself.
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Re: Aesthetics and Ethics 3 Years, 2 Months ago
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"o place higher value on something beautiful for aesthetic reasons," higher value than which other ?????????
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Re: Aesthetics and Ethics 3 Years, 2 Months ago
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[quote1237430214=Colin Michael]
Well, technically speaking, wouldn't aesthetic value be a contingent of one's ethics?
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What?
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