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ERIC Number: EJ1224143
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-0305-7240
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Admiration, Attraction and the Aesthetics of Exemplarity
Kidd, Ian James
Journal of Moral Education, v48 n3 p369-380 2019
The aim of this article is to show that an aesthetics of exemplarity could be a useful component of projects of moral self-cultivation. Using Linda Zagzebski's exemplarism, I describe a distinctive, aesthetically-inflected mode of admiration called moral attraction whose object is the inner beauty of a person--the expression of the 'inner' virtues or excellences of character of a person in 'outer' forms of bodily comportment that are experienced, by others, as beautiful. I then argue that certain moral traditions deploy inner beauty within their practices of moral self-cultivation--a good example being Confucianism. Advocates of exemplarist moral education should therefore take seriously the ways that an aesthetics of exemplarity can play roles within projects of moral self-cultivation.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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