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Moral Beauty, Inside and Out

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Abstract

In this article, robust evidence is provided showing that an individual’s moral character can contribute to the aesthetic quality of their appearance, as well as being beautiful or ugly itself. It is argued that this evidence supports two main conclusions. First, moral beauty and ugliness reside on the inside, and beauty and ugliness are not perception-dependent as a result; and, second, aesthetic perception is affected by moral information, and thus moral beauty and ugliness are on the outside as well.

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Keywords

50 Philosophy and Religious Studies, 5001 Applied Ethics

Journal Title

Australasian Journal of Philosophy

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Journal ISSN

0004-8402
1471-6828

Volume Title

99

Publisher

Informa UK Limited