On 3/4/2017 4:26 PM, Jon Awbrey wrote:
I saw Beauty, Goodness, and Truth as the intersecting circles of a Venn diagram, with the summum bonum the central cell.
Note that Beauty comes first in most versions -- including Peirce's. All sciences, including the normative sciences, are based on perception -- AKA aisthesis. The three-ring pretzel doesn't show the dependency. In _Either/Or_, Kierkegaard posed a conflict between aesthetics and morality. But there is no conflict. Killing, stealing, and lying are immoral because they're ugly. If we want our robots to be moral, we should teach them to appreciate art, music, literature. Immoral politicians want to kill funding for the arts. Bad idea. John
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