Aestheticdeism posits a creator motivated by beauty rather than moral goodness, but Iris Murdoch's account treats goodness and beauty as co-convergent transcendentals, eliminating the asymmetry Swinburne needs.
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A frame property expressible in hybrid logic by the formula c→□¬◇c, meaning if world x accesses world y, then y does not access x.
beauty(André Félibien's aesthetic theory, in the context of the debate between color and drawing in 17th-century French art criticism)
A result of the proportion and symmetry between corporeal and material parts
goodness(Russell's 1897 definition, where 'we' may refer to the community at large or to the speaker)
That which we desire to desire
transcendentals(Philip the Chancellor's argument for the unity of intellect and will)
Metaphysical properties (such as the true and the good) that are co-extensive across all being, differing only intensionally (in concept) but not extensionally (in reference)