The problem with aesthetics being the dominant value is that, for some people, aesthetics implies cruelty.
Conversation
Replying to
Think this critique is a bit incomplete, but essentially correct.
Not sure what's missing, though. It just tastes a bit... unspiced?
Replying to
Not sure. I think what strikes me about aesthetics is the sheer arbitrariness of it.
Even with semi-objective measures of beauty & ugliness, some people love ugly things and despise beauty.
It's a deity out of cosmic horror - beautiful but capricious, incomprehensible, deadly.
1
2
Show replies
Just wondering what happens if we rummage around in here. Where are all the sharp edges in aesthetics? Why is ethics so often grey, brutalist?
Are these contingent outcomes, or universal?
1