We love the good, not because it is good, but because it is beautiful. One who cannot apprehend beauty won't make a habit of seeking the good -- the apprehension of beauty precedes the good in sense and in action. A good person with no eye for beauty will soon fall to evil.
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As I've said, my philosophy is all founded atop aesthetics. I think everyone's is, but I'm somewhat unusual in that I strained to base my philosophy on my observed behavior (including input from others), and not how I wished things were.
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the more I've been honest with myself the more importance I place on aesthetics. I've come to believe it's actually identical with ethics but is realistic rather than idealistic (as most ethical philosophies tend to be).
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This is pretty much my view, except I see ethics as something like the discrete, operationalized form of aesthetics, which rests in the realm of ideals and the continuous -- the two co-create one another.
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