id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_dw3ag6wcfvgbpnclnvltl5fgpq Rhett Diessner Empirical relationships between beauty and justice: Testing Scarry and elaborating Danto 2009 10 .pdf application/pdf 9660 803 67 Parallel to Scarry, Arthur Danto (2003) posits that 20th century artists avoided producing beautiful works Keywords: beauty, justice, DIT, character strengths, trait fairness 2007; Perrine, & Brodersen, 2005; Thompson, Brossart, & Carlozzi, 2002). Studies using the Engagement with Beauty Scale (EBS; Diessner, Parsons, Solom, Frost, & Davidson, 2008), which has three whether there is a significant positive relationship between engagement with beauty and justice reasoning. whether there is a significant positive relationship between engagement with beauty and the character strength of fairness. Study 1: Engagement With Beauty and Justice Reasoning The EBS provides a total scale score and also has three subscales tapping engagement with natural beauty (four items), artistic vindicated by the positive and significant, though small, correlation between engagement with beauty and justice reasoning. We expected that the DIT2, a measure of moral/justice reasoning, would correlate higher with the EBS subscale of moral beauty ./cache/work_dw3ag6wcfvgbpnclnvltl5fgpq.pdf ./txt/work_dw3ag6wcfvgbpnclnvltl5fgpq.txt