1st Edition
Artful Virtue: The Interplay of the Beautiful and the Good in the Scottish Enlightenment
By Leslie Ellen Brown
Copyright 2015
284 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 The Senses; Chapter 2 Virtue; Chapter 3 Beauty; Chapter 4 Sentiment; Chapter 5 Taste; Chapter 6 Experience; Chapter 7 Cultivation; Chapter 8 Traditions; Chapter 101 Afterword;
Biography
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.
