Leslie Ellen Brown

Artful Virtue: The Interplay of the Beautiful and the Good in the Scottish Enlightenment

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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 of sources, from academic lectures and institution… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-317-17833-0
EAN: 9781317178330
Produktnummer: 20177681
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 284 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 3'580 KB

Über den Autor

Leslie Ellen Brown is Professor Emerita of Music at Ripon College, USA. Her earliest publications were in the field of early eighteenth-century French opera, with her later work concentrating on eighteenth-century Scottish studies.