• Re: Beauty versus Morality

    colleen fitzgerald

    It may be productive to address the secondary question, (or perhaps primary question), “if distinct” before moving on to the broader question regarding behavior of this question. Both ethics and aesthetics involve a process of valuation, but I find it helpful to posit that ethics is concerned with what may be termed as logical processing, while aesthetics is more engaged with affect. With this in mind, then an underlying question, with regard to behavior, is how the object with which one is interacting is valued. I also find it helpful to engage the distinction in value of “use” and “in… Read More

    February 26, 2008