Abstract:Is there a relation between the aesthetic and the ethical? Philosophers have long been intrigued by a sense of connection between them. John Dewey and Iris Murdoch agree that teaching art is teaching morals. If that's true, it's powerful. If the correspondence between aesthetic and ethical is metaphorical, remember that metaphor is real—and may have a basis in neurology. I discuss aesthetics, cognitive science, neuroscience, and theory of mind, and find that art and morality share a density, as in Nelson Goodman's symptoms of the aesthetic, offering a key to better understanding essential qualities of humanity.

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道德密度：为什么教授艺术就是教授伦理

摘要：审美与伦理之间有关系吗？长期以来，哲学家们一直对他们之间的联系感很感兴趣。约翰杜威和艾瑞斯默多克同意教授艺术就是教授道德。如果这是真的，那就太强大了。如果审美和伦理之间的对应关系是隐喻的，请记住隐喻是真实的——并且可能有神经学的基础。我讨论了美学、认知科学、神经科学和心理理论，并发现艺术和道德共享一个密度，就像纳尔逊古德曼的美学症状一样，为更好地理解人类的基本素质提供了关键。