Benjamin Cain
Jul 30, 2024

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This is an old idea of mine. I wrote about it more on my blog before I started writing on Medium. The idea is to reconstruct morality in aesthetic terms that follow from scientific objectivity, which would make morality objective. So the challenge would be to derive at least basic humanist principles strictly from the value of creativity or originality. Aesthetic humanism wouldn't be anti-creative, but would be opposed to nature's monstrous form of creativity. We'd be devising intelligent designs as replacements for wild constructs.

I don't know if this idea bridges the two sides of Western philosophy.

Here are some of my old formulations of how this reconstruction would work:

http://rantswithintheundeadgod.blogspot.ca/2013/11/life-as-art-morality-and-natures.html

http://rantswithintheundeadgod.blogspot.com/2019/09/all-real-values-are-aesthetic.html

http://rantswithintheundeadgod.blogspot.ca/2012/06/morality-and-aesthetic-conception-of.html

http://rantswithintheundeadgod.blogspot.com/2012/06/case-studies-of-aesthetic-morality.html

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

Written by Benjamin Cain

Ph.D. in philosophy / Knowledge condemns. Art redeems. / https://benjamincain.substack.com / https://ko-fi.com/benjamincain / benjamincain8@gmailDOTcom

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