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Single Idea 8117
[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good
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Full Idea
For Baumgarten, Beauty is the Perfect (the Absolute), recognised through the senses; Truth is the Perfect perceived through reason; Goodness is the Perfect reached by moral will.
Gist of Idea
Perfection comes through the senses (Beauty), through reason (Truth), and through moral will (Good)
Source
report of Alexander Baumgarten (Aesthetica [1739]) by Leo Tolstoy - What is Art? Ch.3
Book Ref
Tolstoy,Leo: 'What is Art? and Essays on Art', ed/tr. Maude,A [OUP 1975], p.92
A Reaction
At last, after many years of searching, I have found the origin of that great trio of ideals: Beauty, Goodness and Truth. Tolstoy sneers at them, but a person could do a lot worse than spending their lives trying to promote them.
Related Idea
Idea 23760
All we need are the unity of justice, truth and beauty [Weil]
The
19 ideas
with the same theme
[candidates for what is supremely good]:
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3028
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The chief good is unity, sometimes seen as prudence, or God, or intellect
[Eucleides]
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393
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Good first, then beauty, then reason, then knowledge, then pleasure
[Plato, by PG]
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9274
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Plato's legacy to European thought was the Good, the Beautiful and the True
[Plato, by Gray]
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5131
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Intelligence and sight, and some pleasures and honours, are candidates for being good in themselves
[Aristotle]
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5135
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Goods are external, of the soul, and of the body; those of the soul (such as action) come first
[Aristotle]
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5110
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Goodness is when a thing (such as a circle) is complete, and conforms with its nature
[Aristotle]
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20843
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Final goods: confidence, prudence, freedom, enjoyment and no pain, good spirits, virtue
[Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
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23328
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The essences of good and evil are in dispositions to choose
[Epictetus]
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22755
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Like a warming fire, what is good by nature should be good for everyone
[Sext.Empiricus]
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7821
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Pagans produced three hundred definitions of the highest good
[Augustine, by Grayling]
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12957
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The good is the virtuous, the pleasing, or the useful
[Leibniz]
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8117
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Perfection comes through the senses (Beauty), through reason (Truth), and through moral will (Good)
[Baumgarten, by Tolstoy]
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19450
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Reason, love and will are the highest perfections and essence of man - the purpose of his life
[Feuerbach]
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21747
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Goodness is a combination of love and knowledge
[Russell]
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5925
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The three main values are good, right and beauty
[Moore,GE, by Ross]
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5910
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The three intrinsic goods are virtue, knowledge and pleasure
[Ross]
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5932
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The four goods are: virtue, pleasure, just allocation of pleasure, and knowledge
[Ross]
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22379
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The meaning of 'good' and other evaluations must include the object to which they attach
[Foot]
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18224
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Goodness is given either by a psychological state, or the attribution of a property
[Korsgaard]
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