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Aaron Ridley, Why Ethics and Aesthetics are Practically the Same, The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 66, Issue 262, January 2016, Pages 102–121, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqv069
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Abstract
Discussion of the relations between ethics and aesthetics has tended to focus on issues concerning judgement: for example, philosophers have often asked whether, or to what extent, ethical considerations of one sort or another should inform aesthetic verdicts. Much less discussed, however, have been the relations between these two domains in their practical aspects. In this paper, I try to defuse a cluster of reasons for believing that practical competence in the ethical domain and practical competence in the aesthetic domain must be understood as importantly, or structurally, distinct from one another.