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Single Idea 18543

[filed under theme 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 7. Status of Reason ]

Full Idea

The judgement of beauty makes a claim about its object, and can be supported by reasons. But the reasons do not compel the judgement and can be rejected without contradiction. So are they reasons or aren't they?

Gist of Idea

Do aesthetic reasons count as reasons, if they are rejectable without contradiction?

Source

Roger Scruton (Beauty: a very short introduction [2011], 1)

Book Ref

Scruton,Roger: 'Beauty: A Very Short Introduction' [OUP 2011], p.7

A Reaction

I suspect that what he is really referring to is evidence rather than reasons.

The 17 ideas with the same theme [importance of reason in human life]:

7989 Seek salvation in the wisdom of reason [Anon (Bhag)]
362 The greatest misfortune for a person is to develop a dislike for argument [Plato]
623 It is readily agreed that thinking is the most godlike of things in our experience [Aristotle]
2801 Intelligence which looks ahead is a natural master, while bodily strength is a natural slave [Aristotle]
501 Reason is a more powerful persuader than gold [Democritus (attr)]
23248 Early empiricists said reason was just a useless concept introduced by philosophers [Galen, by Frede,M]
2857 Since Plato all philosophers have followed the herd, except Descartes, stuck in superficial reason [Nietzsche on Descartes]
6222 If a decision is in accord with right reason, everyone can agree with it [Cumberland]
12526 Opposition to reason is mad [Locke]
12963 Opposing reason is opposing truth, since reason is a chain of truths [Leibniz]
3807 Reason is and ought to be the slave of the passions [Hume]
6912 For Fichte there is no God outside the ego, and 'our religion is reason' [Fichte, by Feuerbach]
2896 I want to understand the Socratic idea that 'reason equals virtue equals happiness' [Nietzsche]
4530 Reason is a mere idiosyncrasy of a certain species of animal [Nietzsche]
20379 Reason is just another organic drive, developing late, and fighting for equality [Nietzsche]
21945 Foucault originally felt that liberating reason had become an instrument of domination [Foucault, by Gutting]
18543 Do aesthetic reasons count as reasons, if they are rejectable without contradiction? [Scruton]