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We present the structure and guiding principles of this Special Issue, with a brief description of the participants’ contributions and the relations holding between them. The intersection between aesthetics and ethics as a field of philosophical enquiry is presented under the guise of a ‘layer cake’: at the top layer we find the most general metaphysical and epistemological issues concerning the nature of value, aesthetic and ethical; the middle layer encompasses several normative issues about the interactions of aesthetic, moral and cognitive values in art; finally at the bottom layer we introduce issues of a more restricted focus, like the aesthetic peculiarity of political songs and the ethics of artistic appropriation.

Introduction

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We present the structure and guiding principles of this Special Issue, with a brief description of the participants’ contributions and the relations holding...

Introduction

Published Online: Nov 28, 2022

Page range: 159 - 180

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2021-0009

Keywords
aesthetic value, art, cognitive value, moral value, theory of value

© 2021 Susana Cadilha et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Introduction

Published Online: Nov 28, 2022

Page range: 159 - 180

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2021-0009

Keywordsaesthetic value, art, cognitive value, moral value, theory of value

© 2021 Susana Cadilha et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
aesthetic value, art, cognitive value, moral value, theory of value