Is Aesthetics just as important to you as................?

Question

Morality, Ethics and Justice?

Answer 1

They are determinants for each other again and again. It is human development.


http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ae/index.htm

Hegel’s Lectures on Aesthetics

Table of Contents

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Source: Selections from Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics, by Bernard Bosanquet & W.M. Bryant, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 1886;
See also Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art, translated by T M Knox


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Introduction
Development of the Ideal in the Special Forms Of Art


Of the Symbolic Form of Art
1. The Symbol is a sensuous object
2. The Symbol as a special Form of Art

DIVISION

1. The point of departure
2. The termination of this epoch


Of the Ideal of Classic Art
I. The Classic Ideal


1. The ideal as free creation of the imagination of the artist

a. They borrow their ideas from the human heart
b. All foreign elements are cast out
c. Acknowledging the presence of the Gods, and signaling what is remarkable in natural events

2. The new gods of Classic Art

a. Concentrated individuality
b. The external and corporeal form
c. Their universal and absolute character

3. External character of the representation

Of the Romantic Form of Art
Introduction — of the Romantic in General

II. The Circle of Objects Conditioned by Romantic Art

1. First point of departure
2. Spiritual reconciliation as a movement of the spirit
3. Spirit has its representative in man

III. The relation of the content to the mode of its representation

1. The material of Romantic Art
2. The content is already at hand for itself in imagination and sensuous perception
3. Romantic Art no longer has for its aim the free vitality of actual existence

DIVISION

1. The Religious as such
2. The Secular world
3. The Formal Independence of Character

1. Spiritual being has attained a shape adequate to the conception of spirit
2. The beautiful in art is the Idea as developed into concrete form fit for reality
3. The different relations of content and shape

a. The Beginning of Art
b. The Classical Form of Art
c. The Romantic Form of Art

4. How these principles pass into Actual Existence

a. Architecture
b. Sculpture
c. The totality of Arts

(1) Painting
(2) Music
(3) Poetry

5. The Idea of Beauty


"c. The totality of Arts
c. Now, after architecture has erected the temple, and the hand of sculpture has supplied it with the statue of the God, then, in the third place, this god present to sense is confronted in the spacious halls of his house by the community. The community is the spiritual reflection into itself of such sensuous existence, and is the animating subjectivity and inner life which brings about the result that the determining principle for the content of art, as well as for the medium which represents it in outward form, comes to be particularisation (dispersion into various shapes, attributes, incidents, etc.), individualisation, and the subjectivity which they require. The solid unity which the God has in sculpture breaks up into the multitudinous inner lives of individuals, whose unity is not sensuous, but purely ideal."

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ae/ch03.htm#41

Answer 2

Good heavens, no. Morality, Ethics and Justice are HUGE issues, governing how we conduct ourselves and what our conduct toward others will be. Aesthetics enhances a moral, ethical, just life, it is not an adequate end in itself.

Answer 3

unquestionably. a lot would depend on the person's astrological makeup, i would presume, based on experience. the business and warrioresque troglodytes would be obsessed with status and power, and macho posturing, respectively. morality, etc. would be distant considerations. some of us would treat all four respectfully, and definitely artistic sense and sensibility would be very central to our way of being. ;-) the permutations are possibly endless, depending on the person, obviously. if i *had* to choose an order, my selection would be: justice, ethics, aesthetics, and morality. otherwise---co-equal.;-)

Answer 4

Morality, ethics, and justice are all forms of aesthetics. They are conceptual, organized systems with inherent beauty, if you care to see it.

Answer 5

No.

Morality, ethics and justice should all occur at the same time, ideally.

Aesthetics is an artistic term, and as such is much higher on the pyramid of needs.

Answer 6

No no no no no

Morality, ethics and justice are essential for a world of order and trust.

Answer 7

Yes, even more. I think all them are small parts of the great spirit of aesthetic.

Answer 8

These are all aspects of what it means to be a human.

What you are asking is similar to asking people to rank their body parts. Is your tongue just as important to you as your eye, your right arm, your feet?

You see? Your question is sort of silly when you see it that way.

Answer 9

Actually is the most important...

Answer 10

Definitely - because they are the same thing.