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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823267203321

Autore

Eaton Marcia Muelder <1938->

Titolo

Merit, aesthetic and ethical / / Marcia Muelder Eaton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2001

ISBN

0-19-028623-7

0-19-773085-X

1-280-53111-8

0-19-534988-1

1-4294-0182-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

111/.85

Soggetti

Aesthetics

Art - Moral and ethical aspects

Ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Requested title: The appearance of merit and the merit of appearance connecting aesthetic and ethical value.

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; One. What and Why Is Art?; Two. Aesthetic Relevance; Three. The Nature of Aesthetic Properties; Four. Aesthetic Justification; 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; Twelve. Aesthetics and Ethics in the Environment; Thirteen. Aesthetics and Ethics in Communities; Fourteen. Aesthetics and Ethics in Education Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Traditionally, 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.