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Author Brown, Leslie Ellen

Title Artful virtue : the interplay of the beautiful and the good in the Scottish Enlightenment / by Leslie Ellen Brown
Published Burlington : Ashgate, 2015

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Contents Cover; Contents; List of Plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The Senses; 2 Virtue; Virtue as "Lovely Form"; Civic Virtue; Virtue into Art; Providence; 3 Beauty; Beauty Defined and Dissected; Sublimity; Beauty and Truth; Beauty and Pleasure; 4 Sentiment; Passions and Affections; Imitation; Expression; Imitation and Expression in Music; 5 Taste; Sense of Taste, Delicacy of Taste, Standard of Taste ; Judgment and Criticism; Imagination and Genius; Custom and Fashion; British Taste, the Scotch Taste, and the Genuine Scots Taste; 6 Experience; Analogy and Induction; Association of Ideas
7 CultivationUtility and the Useful; Improvement and Progress; Education; 8 Traditions; The Antique; Recovering History; Primitive Voices; Afterword; Select Bibliography; Index
Summary During the Scottish Enlightenment the relationship between aesthetics and ethics became deeply ingrained: beauty was the sensible manifestation of virtue; the fine arts represented the actions of a virtuous mind; to deeply understand artful and natural beauty was to identify with moral beauty; and the aesthetic experience was indispensable in making value judgments. This book reveals the history of how the Scots applied the vast landscape of moral philosophy to the specific territories of beauty - in nature, aesthetics and ethics - in the eighteenth century. The author explores a wide variety
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Philosophy, Scottish -- 18th century.
Enlightenment -- Scotland
Aesthetics, Scottish -- History -- 18th century
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
Aesthetics, Scottish
Enlightenment
Philosophy, Scottish
Scotland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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