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Ideas of Berys Gaut, by Text
[British, fl. 2006, Lecturer at St Andrews University.]
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1998
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The Ethical Criticism of Art
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'Ethicism'
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p.283
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Good ethics counts towards aesthetic merit, and bad ethics counts against it
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'Ethicism'
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p.284
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Good art does not necessarily improve people (any more than good advice does)
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'Merited'
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p.290
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If we don't respond ethically in the way a work prescribes, that is an aesthetic failure
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n 1
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p.292
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'Moralism' says all aesthetic merits are moral merits
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'Objections 1'
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p.284
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Formalists say aesthetics concerns types of beauty, or unity, complexity and intensity
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'Some'
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p.287
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Maybe literary assessment is evaluating the artist as a suitable friend
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