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Full Idea
The aesthetic attitude allows us to treat value as a verb: as valuing, rather than some property we identify in an object. When I value something, I engage with it, or take pleasure in it, or act in a nurturing manner towards it.
Gist of Idea
We can treat value as a verb; we value something when we positively engage with it
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
A nice thought, but clearly rather stipulative. Personally I only value things by how much someone will pay me for them. I'm trying to re-educate myself by reading Cochrane. Perhaps I should start with why I would pay a lot for something…
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| 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] |
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