The Aesthetic Value of the World
Tom Cochrane
Abstract
In this book, Tom Cochrane defends Aestheticism—the claim that everything is aesthetically valuable and that a life lived in pursuit of aesthetic value can be a particularly good one. Furthermore, in distilling aesthetic qualities, artists have a special role to play in teaching us to recognize values; a critical component of virtue. Cochrane grounds his account upon an analysis of aesthetic value as ‘objectified final value’, which is underwritten by an original psychological claim that all aesthetic values are distal versions of practical values. This is followed by systematic accounts of be ... More
Keywords: aesthetic value, aestheticism, values of art, beauty, sublimity, comedy, drama, tragedy, the good life, aesthetics and ethics
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2021 | Print ISBN-13: 9780192848819 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: December 2021 | DOI:10.1093/oso/9780192848819.001.0001 |
