Is Aesthetic Consistency Worth Having?

John, Eileen

dc.contributor.author	John, Eileen
dc.date.accessioned	2023-09-25T15:04:09Z
dc.date.available	2023-09-25T15:04:09Z
dc.date.issued	2023-09-14
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/183942
dc.description.abstract	Should we aspire to aesthetic consistency? Two kinds of aesthetic consistency are considered, following Ted Cohen’s discussion of consistency in personal aesthetics: consistency of aesthetic reasons and coherence of aesthetic personality. Neither of these kinds of consistency seems like something to aspire to, possibly because we cannot do so – if we are not typically reasoning at the level of aesthetic response that is envisaged – or because consistent, coherent responsiveness does not seem like a worthwhile aesthetic goal. A third kind of consistency is defended, at the level of reflection on the desirable functions of art. We can try to be consistent about broadly ethical principles, showing our commitments as to the goods that art should provide in a life or to a society. These very broad principles do not make direct or clear aesthetic contact with individual artworks, so we cannot straightforwardly apply them as evaluative principles. But we can be consistent in trying to link the very specific achievements of works with these reflective values.	en
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta	cs
dc.publisher	Helsinki University Press	en
dc.rights	This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of theCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.source.uri	https://estetikajournal.org
dc.subject	aesthetic consistency	en
dc.subject	aesthetic reasons	en
dc.subject	aesthetic personality	en
dc.subject	particularism	en
dc.subject	Fabian Dorsch	en
dc.title	Is Aesthetic Consistency Worth Having?	en
dc.type	Vědecký článek	cs
uk.abstract.en	Should we aspire to aesthetic consistency? Two kinds of aesthetic consistency are considered, following Ted Cohen’s discussion of consistency in personal aesthetics: consistency of aesthetic reasons and coherence of aesthetic personality. Neither of these kinds of consistency seems like something to aspire to, possibly because we cannot do so – if we are not typically reasoning at the level of aesthetic response that is envisaged – or because consistent, coherent responsiveness does not seem like a worthwhile aesthetic goal. A third kind of consistency is defended, at the level of reflection on the desirable functions of art. We can try to be consistent about broadly ethical principles, showing our commitments as to the goods that art should provide in a life or to a society. These very broad principles do not make direct or clear aesthetic contact with individual artworks, so we cannot straightforwardly apply them as evaluative principles. But we can be consistent in trying to link the very specific achievements of works with these reflective values.	en
dc.publisher.publicationPlace	Helsinki	en
dc.publisher.publicationPlace	Praha	cs
uk.internal-type	uk_publication
dc.identifier.doi	10.33134/eeja.419
dc.description.startPage	115
dc.description.endPage	130
dcterms.isPartOf.name	Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics	en
dcterms.isPartOf.journalYear	2023
dcterms.isPartOf.journalVolume	2023
dcterms.isPartOf.journalIssue	2
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn	2571-0915

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