Its Moral Beauty
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The Beautiful Soul
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Author : Robert E. Norton
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2020-06-30
The Beautiful Soul written by Robert E. Norton and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-30 with History categories.
For many eighteenth-century European philosophers and writers, the beautiful soul was a symbol of enlightened humanity, carrying with it the possibility that aesthetic beauty and moral goodness would be fused in a new, indivisible unity. In the first book in English on the subject, Robert E. Norton follows the fortunes of this cultural icon, exploring the reasons for both its initial popularity and its subsequent decline as a cultural ideal during the Enlightenment. Tracing the emergence of the notion of moral beauty as it first appears in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, Norton maintains that the attempt to combine the good and the beautiful was a response to the rise of secular authority. He draws on English, French, and German sources to show how writers in various intellectual traditions united philosophical, theological, and cultural themes in their elaboration of the beautiful soul. In Norton's view, this articulation of the beautiful soul was so persuasive that, by the second half of the eighteenth century, some version of moral beauty was introduced in nearly every discussion of morality. While writers such as Wieland, Rousseau, and Goethe employed the beautiful soul as a moral and aesthetic ideal in fiction, thinkers such as Kant explored it in philosophical works. Norton ends by demonstrating how the figure of the beautiful soul achieved its foremost expression in Schiller's writings and was definitively rejected in Hegel's Phenomenology.
Its Moral Beauty By A Divotee
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Author : DIVOTEE.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1923
Its Moral Beauty By A Divotee written by DIVOTEE. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1923 with categories.
Perfect Me
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Author : Heather Widdows
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-02-25
Perfect Me written by Heather Widdows and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-25 with Philosophy categories.
How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to which we judge ourselves good or bad, a success or a failure. Perfect Me explores the changing nature of the beauty ideal, showing how it is more dominant, more demanding, and more global than ever before.Heather Widdows argues that our perception of the self is changing. More and more, we locate the self in the body--not just our actual, flawed bodies but our transforming and imagined ones. As this happens, we further embrace the beauty ideal. Nobody is firm enough, thin enough, smooth enough, or buff enough-not without significant effort and cosmetic intervention. And as more demanding practices become the norm, more will be required of us, and the beauty ideal will be harder and harder to resist.If you have ever felt the urge to "make the best of yourself" or worried that you were "letting yourself go," this book explains why. Perfect Me examines how the beauty ideal has come to define how we see ourselves and others and how we structure our daily practices-and how it enthralls us with promises of the good life that are dubious at best. Perfect Me demonstrates that we must first recognize the ethical nature of the beauty ideal if we are ever to address its harms.
Al Ghaz L And The Idea Of Moral Beauty
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Author : Sophia Vasalou
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-09-23
Al Ghaz L And The Idea Of Moral Beauty written by Sophia Vasalou and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-23 with Religion categories.
Al-Ghazālī and the Idea of Moral Beauty rethinks the relationship between the good and the beautiful by considering the work of eleventh-century Muslim theologian Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 1111). A giant of Islamic intellectual history, al-Ghazālī is celebrated for his achievements in a wide range of disciplines. One of his greatest intellectual contributions lies in the sphere of ethics, where he presided over an ambitious attempt to integrate philosophical and scriptural ideas into a seamless ethical vision. The connection between ethics and aesthetics turns out to be a signature feature of this account. Virtue is one of the forms of beauty, and human beings are naturally disposed to respond to it with love. The universal human response to beauty in turn provides the central paradigm for thinking about the love commanded by God. While al-Ghazālī’s account of divine love has received ample attention, his special way of drawing the good into relation with the beautiful has oddly escaped remark. In this book Sophia Vasalou addresses this gap by offering a philosophical and contextual study of this aspect of al-Ghazālī’s ethics and of the conception of moral beauty that emerges from it. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in Islamic ethics, Islamic intellectual history, and the history of ethics.
Beauty Matters The Moral Issues
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Author : MichaelAngela Solis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-05-15
Beauty Matters The Moral Issues written by MichaelAngela Solis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-15 with categories.
My main aim in this book is to add value in students’ lives in their scholastic pursuit and hopefully as a result to show: ‘beauty’ is very much an integral part of our personal lives in our collective existence, meaning, beauty has an important and influential role in morality and it is invisibly integrated in business, science, ethics, philosophy and art. Although sometimes, we are unaware of beauty but one thing is for sure we definitely experience it – we just don’t see it, we feel it, and these are the reasons why we should get to know it. What is beauty and why is it important? What is ethics in aesthetics—morality in beauty? Hopefully after reading this book you would never look at things, places, people, experiences, feelings and emotions and especially YOU as an individual and your life the same way again.
Observations On The Feeling Of The Beautiful And Sublime
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Author : Immanuel Kant
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003
Observations On The Feeling Of The Beautiful And Sublime written by Immanuel Kant and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Philosophy categories.
Small, beautiful, classic of philosophy, with new cover.
Aesthetics And Morality
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Author : Elisabeth Schellekens
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2010-07-15
Aesthetics And Morality written by Elisabeth Schellekens and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-15 with Philosophy categories.
Aesthetic and moral value are often seen to go hand in hand. They do so not only practically, such as in our everyday assessments of artworks that raise moral questions, but also theoretically, such as in Kant's theory that beauty is the symbol of morality. Some philosophers have argued that it is in the relation between aesthetic and moral value that the key to an adequate understanding of either notion lies. But difficult questions abound. Must a work of art be morally admirable in order to be aesthetically valuable? How, if at all, do our moral values shape our aesthetic judgements - and vice versa? Aesthetics and Morality is a stimulating and insightful inquiry into precisely this set of questions. Elisabeth Schellekens explores the main ideas and debates at the intersection of aesthetics and moral philosophy. She invites readers to reflect on the nature of beauty, art and morality, and provides the philosophical knowledge to render such reflection more rigorous. This original, inspiring and entertaining book sheds valuable new light on a notably complex and challenging area of thought.
A Philosophy Of Beauty
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Author : Michael B. Gill
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2022-11-01
A Philosophy Of Beauty written by Michael B. Gill and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-01 with Philosophy categories.
An engaging account of how Shaftesbury revolutionized Western philosophy At the turn of the eighteenth century, Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713), developed the first comprehensive philosophy of beauty to be written in English. It revolutionized Western philosophy. In A Philosophy of Beauty, Michael Gill presents an engaging account of how Shaftesbury’s thought profoundly shaped modern ideas of nature, religion, morality, and art—and why, despite its long neglect, it remains compelling today. Before Shaftesbury’s magnum opus, Charactersticks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711), it was common to see wilderness as ugly, to associate religion with fear and morality with unpleasant restriction, and to dismiss art as trivial or even corrupting. But Shaftesbury argued that nature, religion, virtue, and art can all be truly beautiful, and that cherishing and cultivating beauty is what makes life worth living. And, as Gill shows, this view had a huge impact on the development of natural religion, moral sense theory, aesthetics, and environmentalism. Combining captivating historical details and flashes of humor, A Philosophy of Beauty not only rediscovers and illuminates a fascinating philosopher but also offers an inspiring reflection about the role beauty can play in our lives.
Making Morals Matter
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Author : Jacob A. Bodway
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Making Morals Matter written by Jacob A. Bodway and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
"Making Morals Matter: Moral Beauty, Embodiment, and Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics" reorients the debates over the relation of ethics and aesthetics during the long eighteenth-century by tracing the emergence of "moral beauty" as a solution to Hobbesian moral relativism. Moral philosophers saw moral beauty as a solution to moral relativism because it represented morals not by verbal definitions, but rather by the sensuousness and the visibility of an individual's moral character. Indeed, a rigorous historical examination of texts by Lord Shaftesbury, Samuel Richardson, William Hogarth, Johann Caspar Lavater, and Mary Shelley reveal that moral beauty furnished an idiom for talking about a somatic and social experience where beauty and morality converged upon the surface of bodies. This embodied view of morality, I contend, recognizes the tactile moments of ethics and aesthetics, upending the assumption that the eighteenth-century understood these disciplines as divorced from anatomy. The importance of this claim cannot be overstated, for "moral beauty" is deeply rooted within patterns of thought we now label the "social sciences," patterns which manifest themselves within theories of physiognomy and Franz Joseph Gall's work on phrenology, and more recently, within the various iterations of social Darwinism and the early twentieth-century's flirtation with eugenics and racial profiling.
Aesthetics
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Author : John Bascom
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-06-01
Aesthetics written by John Bascom and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-01 with Aesthetics categories.
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