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What does it mean?
Moral value and aesthetic beauty share the same logical foundation in his view.
In plain terms
Goodness and beauty are connected in the same way.
What can you take from it?
Ethics and art are unified.

Where it applies

  • philosophical debate
  • art criticism
  • moral reasoning

Putting it to work

  • philosophy courses
  • art analysis
  • ethical frameworks

Questions to consider

  • Is beauty a form of goodness?
  • How do art and morality influence each other?

Another view

Many philosophers separate moral duty from aesthetic preference.

More from Ludwig Wittgenstein

  1. Man is the microcosm: I am my world.

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  2. That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given.

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  3. To believe in God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.

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