{"id":1111,"date":"2024-08-25T15:58:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T15:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2024-08-25T16:01:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T16:01:07","slug":"aesthetics-and-ethics-grow-on-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2024\/08\/25\/aesthetics-and-ethics-grow-on-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Aesthetics and ethics grow on trees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem90-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem90-682x1024.jpg 682w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem90-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem90-768x1154.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem90.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Ultimately our moral sense or conscience becomes a highly complex sentiment &#8211; originating in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason, self-interest, and in later times by deep religious feelings, and confirmed by instruction and habit.&#8221;<br>(Charles Darwin, Descent of Man)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>&#8220;On the whole, every new aesthetic reality makes man&#8217;s ethical reality more precise. For aesthetics is the mother of ethics; The categories of &#8220;good&#8221; and &#8220;bad&#8221; are, first and foremost, aesthetic ones\u2026&#8221;<br>(Joseph Brodsky, Nobel lecture)<\/em><br><br>Out of respect for life and beauty individuality of culture grows. Like old trees, it takes thousands of years to develop, but minutes to destroy\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ultimately our moral sense or conscience becomes a highly complex sentiment &#8211; originating in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason, self-interest, and in later times by deep religious feelings, and confirmed by instruction and habit.&#8221;(Charles Darwin, Descent of Man) &#8220;On the whole, every new aesthetic reality makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[188,55,63,23,104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1112,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions\/1112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}