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A metaphysical answer to the appropriateness question in aesthetics

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dc.contributor.authorLaRose, Gabriella, author
dc.contributor.authorRomagni, Domenica, advisor
dc.contributor.authorMcShane, Katie, committee member
dc.contributor.authorHughes, Kit, committee member
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-06T10:24:29Z
dc.date.available2021-09-06T10:24:29Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThe aim of this project is to give a new, descriptive answer to the appropriateness question in aesthetics. The appropriateness question asks how is it appropriate for ethical value to affect aesthetic value in aesthetic cases? I give a two-step argument for a metaphysical relationship between ethical content and aesthetic experience which is conditional on ethical content being aesthetically relevant and narrative being present. I argue that there is an inherence relationship between ethical content and narrative, where the former inheres in the latter. This relation holds in virtue of the mutual dependence between ethical content and narrative. I then use Noel Carroll's content approach to aesthetic experience to argue aesthetic experience supervenes on narrative content. This supervenient relationship captures the emergence of aesthetic experience while retaining the spirit of Carroll's discussion of aesthetic experience. Ultimately, I argue that because narrative is a feature of aesthetic experience and further because ethical content is a feature of narrative, there is a metaphysical relationship between ethical content and aesthetic experience. Simply, when a narrative exists (even an imagined narrative) and moral content is present, then a metaphysical relationship will exist between ethical content and aesthetic experience.
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dc.identifierLaRose_colostate_0053N_16638.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/233696
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartof2020-
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dc.subjectaesthetic relevance
dc.subjectethical content
dc.subjectaesthetic experience
dc.subjectnarrative understanding
dc.subjectappropriateness question
dc.titleA metaphysical answer to the appropriateness question in aesthetics
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thesis.degree.disciplinePhilosophy
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)

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