Ideas from 'The Aesthetic Value of the World' by Tom Cochrane [2021], by Theme Structure
[found in 'The Aesthetic Value of the World' by Cochrane,Tom [OUP 2021,978-0-19-264881-9]].
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21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 4. Beauty
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Beauty is fittingness, of details uniting within a pattern
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21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 6. The Sublime
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Accounts of sublimity differ over whether we learn something good about ourselves
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21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 2. Art as Form
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We can only understand form if we grasp the whole of which things are parts
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value
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We can treat value as a verb; we value something when we positively engage with it
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / d. Subjective value
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A person's activities have value when they receive full attention
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value
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Aesthetic value appreciates a thing objectively, as a good in its own right
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Morality is not a final value; it concerns how we distribute the things we actually finally value
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love
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Love is a mutual reciprocation, not just a desire for something
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / c. Value of pleasure
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Pleasure has an intrinsic (independent) value, but that is not a final (for its own sake) value
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / e. Role of pleasure
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Pleasure serves to maintain our relationship with its source
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29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 3. Problem of Evil / a. Problem of Evil
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Even non-theists can wonder what, if anything, makes the universe good
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