id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_luf6qncubnfn3lwwbbjfq2hoei Peter Goldie I—Peter Goldie: Virtues of art and Human Well-Being 2008 18 .pdf application/pdf 7634 441 65 expressed in what Aristotle called contemplative activity or the rein, thus excluding practical wisdom, which I will subsume under the ethical virtues. then, is to show that artistic activity, whether of production or appreciation, is really expressive of the virtue of art, and really is just What would be materially different if artistic activity were just a luxury or a skill, or, like sleeping, just a necessary condition for leading a good life? 2 Aristotle drew an analogy between art and ethics, but did not himself include artistic activity in his account of well-being— although see my remarks about the rein later. When we think about someone's ethical virtue, such as honesty, we expect it to be expressed in thought, feeling and action across ethical concepts in the intellectual and in the artistic domain, and return in particular to my earlier example of honesty. ./cache/work_luf6qncubnfn3lwwbbjfq2hoei.pdf ./txt/work_luf6qncubnfn3lwwbbjfq2hoei.txt