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Single Idea 24168

[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value ]

Full Idea

Aesthetic value is a way to value something in an objectified manner; practical values always include a first-person perspective, whereas the aesthetic value activity focuses only on the object, …as just good in its own right.

Gist of Idea

Aesthetic value appreciates a thing objectively, as a good in its own right

Source

Tom Cochrane (The Aesthetic Value of the World [2021], 1.3)

Book Ref

Cochrane,Tom: 'The Aesthetic Value of the World' [OUP 2021], p.14

A Reaction

[compressed] This is the main concept around which his book is constructed, and he offers aesthetic value as a 'final value', and hence as a beacon for human living. Not sure about the thesis, but I admire his book.

Related Ideas

Idea 24169 We can treat value as a verb; we value something when we positively engage with it [Cochrane]

Idea 24171 Morality is not a final value; it concerns how we distribute the things we actually finally value [Cochrane]

The 11 ideas from 'The Aesthetic Value of the World'

24164 Even non-theists can wonder what, if anything, makes the universe good [Cochrane]
24165 Pleasure has an intrinsic (independent) value, but that is not a final (for its own sake) value [Cochrane]
24166 Pleasure serves to maintain our relationship with its source [Cochrane]
24167 Love is a mutual reciprocation, not just a desire for something [Cochrane]
24169 We can treat value as a verb; we value something when we positively engage with it [Cochrane]
24168 Aesthetic value appreciates a thing objectively, as a good in its own right [Cochrane]
24171 Morality is not a final value; it concerns how we distribute the things we actually finally value [Cochrane]
24173 We can only understand form if we grasp the whole of which things are parts [Cochrane]
24174 Beauty is fittingness, of details uniting within a pattern [Cochrane]
24175 Accounts of sublimity differ over whether we learn something good about ourselves [Cochrane]
24176 A person's activities have value when they receive full attention [Cochrane]