Merit Aesthetic And Ethical

Download or read book Merit, Aesthetic and Ethical written by Marcia Muelder Eaton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To "look good" and to "be good" have traditionally been considered two very different notions. Indeed, philosophers have seen aesthetic and ethical values as fundamentally separate. Now, at the crossroads of a new wave of aesthetic theory, Marcia Muelder Eaton introduces this groundbreaking work, in which a bold new concept of merit where being good and looking good are integrated into one.