Group: humanities.philosophy.objectivism
From: Malrassic Park
Date: Friday, April 04, 2008 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: Is "beauty" intrinsic or subjective?

On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:12:12 -0700, Puppet_Sock
wrote:

>On Apr 2, 3:40 pm, Malrassic Park wrote:
>[snip]
>> Irrelevant? "To whom?" and "For what?" You were quoting Ayn Rand in
>> The Virtue of Selfishness. Doesn't that work provide a moral theory?
>
>You can't seriously think that means the only values the
>form applies to are *moral* values. Maybe you think that
>beauty is something that we don't act to gain or keep.
>
>Mal, are you feeling ok? Maybe you should sit down.
>Socks

And yet Rand never applied those questions to her aesthetic theory.
You are conflating axiology with aesthetics.

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