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Physical Attractiveness and Disturbing Art: A Case-By-Case Approach to the Relationship between Ethics and Aesthetics

Wong, David
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1721208875238966

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2024, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: Philosophy.
In this dissertation, I examine how ethical and aesthetic considerations interact and should interact. This, I believe, can usefully be tackled contextually, i.e., on a case-bycase basis. I attempt to demonstrate the worthwhileness of this approach by using it to throw light on the value and disvalue of beautification and adornment, and on the interaction of ethics and aesthetics in disturbing art. Upshots that emerge from my discussion will be that social background conditions often influence the meanings, in addition to the actual and likely consequences, of aesthetic practices; different aesthetic domains afford different types of interactions between ethics and aesthetics; and it is, pace some philosophers of art, valuable to examine diachronic and indirect interactions between ethics and aesthetics.
Vanessa Carbonell, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Eduardo Martinez, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Peter Langland Hassan, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
140 p.
Philosophy
Aesthetic evaluation; Aesthetic criticism; Aesthetics and ethics; Beauty; Horror; Disturbing art

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  • Wong, D. (2024). Physical Attractiveness and Disturbing Art: A Case-By-Case Approach to the Relationship between Ethics and Aesthetics [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1721208875238966

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Wong, David. Physical Attractiveness and Disturbing Art: A Case-By-Case Approach to the Relationship between Ethics and Aesthetics. 2024. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1721208875238966.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Wong, David. "Physical Attractiveness and Disturbing Art: A Case-By-Case Approach to the Relationship between Ethics and Aesthetics." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1721208875238966

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