Aesthetic Benevolence
(2025) In Ratio 38(1). p.48-55- Abstract
- While non-moral varieties of goodness (e.g., aesthetic, epistemic and prudential) are readily recognised by philosophers and non-philosophers alike, the philosophical literature generally suggests that benevolence is a uniquely moral phenomenon. I argue, however, that our interpersonal practices display a range of instances of aesthetic benevolence, and that this observation stands to enrich our understanding of the relation between moral psychology, aesthetic experience and aesthetic community. I illustrate this point via discussion of the evaluative attitude that is the fitting response to being the target of another's manifestation of aesthetic benevolence, namely aesthetic gratitude.
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- author
- Telech, Daniel LU
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- publishing date
- 2025
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- aesthetics, benevolence, gratitude, moral psychology, reactive attitudes
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- Ratio
- volume
- 38
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 8 pages
- publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
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- scopus:85209709544
- ISSN
- 0034-0006
- DOI
- 10.1111/rati.12432
- language
- English
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- yes
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