Aesthetic and ethical Attitudes

Autor: Sabina Lovibond
Rok vydání: 2022
Zdroj: Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie. 5:61-74
ISSN: 2522-0071
DOI: 10.1007/s42048-022-00116-z
Popis: The essay suggests that (despite some hostile twentieth-century criticism) there is such a thing as a characteristically ‘aesthetic attitude’, and that this idea can indeed shed light on the production and reception of works of art, as well as on the appreciation of nature. It argues, further, that the response to individual ‘particularity’ implicit in the aesthetic attitude renders this attitude continuous with that of ethical attention to – and appreciation of – individual persons: we are concerned here with distinct, but related, aspects of the valuable ‘in itself’ or ‘for its own sake’.
Databáze: OpenAIRE