I've said it before and I'll say again that these simplistic little fake philosophy statements and quotes are very annoying. Life and ideas are complicated and have always been so. If moral and aesthetic judgments were so easy to make in days of yore then why where there so many wonderful philosophers and thinkers, writers and artists, poets and composers, statesmen and many others all through history whose complex ideas and works remain stimulating, challenging, and pertinent today? There were never any easy answers, never a simple divide between good and bad, high and low, right and wrong and never a single standard for any action from cooking beans to creating an empire or writing a philosophy.
wc ----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, March 7, 2012 2:37:06 AM Subject: "Whereas the old morality saw things as so simple that moral judgment was always easy, the new morality sees things so complicated that moral judgment becomes practically impossible. - Whereas the old morality saw things as so simple that moral judgment was always easy, the new morality sees things so complicated that moral judgment becomes practically impossible. ------------------------------------------------- Isn't what John Courtney Murray said also applicable to the difficulty in making aesthetic judgments in these times, i.e., that the shades of grayer than gray notions of standards nowadays are so ambiguous that they confuse those who hope to discriminate the good from the bad?
