Inter-Relationship between Aesthetics and Ethics: An Appraisal

Abstract

Inter-relation between aesthetics and ethics is a persistent issue which has long been an object of scholarly debate. The very notion of beauty and morality has acquired new meanings, specific uses due to ongoing societal shifts. With a careful consideration of these new dimensions, this article is concerned primarily to outline the spheres where the unbound inventiveness of our aesthetic notion and rigorous regularity of our moral response meet, from an analytic perspective. There are significant connections between Aesthetics and ethics. With increased focus on its general philosophical underpinnings, it has come to be seen that this issue is not only as significant within the sphere of aesthetics and ethics but indeed also relevant to contemporary discussions in other related areas. The idea that a full understanding of aesthetics and ethics as two branches of study, is becoming increasingly widely accepted and that’s why in the first section the author(s) are intended to clarify these concepts first....