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    An independent grasp of and commitment to fundamental moral principles is necessary even given art's natural tendency toward moral good.

    AestheticsVirtue Ethics
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    • 1.Art can be put to perverse and immoral use as well as healthy and good use.
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    • 2.Without independent moral grounding, aesthetic experience's natural tendency to morally good outcomes can be perverted.
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    • 1.Schiller argues in 'Aesthetic Education' that the aesthetic drive (Spieltrieb) already reconciles sensuous and formal impulses, generating moral freedom intrinsically.
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    • 2.If aesthetic experience constitutively produces the conditions for moral autonomy, then independent moral grounding is not a prerequisite but a byproduct of aesthetic cultivation.
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    • 1.Hutcheson's moral sense theory holds that benevolent affective responses are immediate and non-inferential, requiring no prior rational moral principles to function reliably.
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    • 2.If moral perception operates through trained sentiment rather than independent rational commitment, art's cultivation of sentiment is sufficient for moral orientation without prior principled grounding.
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    The moral potential of art must be governed by a firm recognition of t...89%Sulzer holds that art's moral potential must be subordinate to direct ...88%Works of art enliven our abstract knowledge of moral precepts.82%Fine art has immediate moral value81%

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    Sulzer’s mature aesthetics is firmly grounded in his generally Leibnizo-Wolffian metaphysics and psychology as well as in his Wolffian moral philosophy. The central tenets of his metaphysics and psychology are that the human mind is essentially representational, so that desire and will as well as cognition are forms of representation, and that the ultimate source of all of our pleasurable sentiments is the unhindered activity of our capacity for representation. Conversely, the fundamental source
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