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Aesthetics and Ethics: Disgust and Disgust
Psychological Science has correlated moral disgust with physical disgust. If you eat something disgusting you can feel moral disgust, with the reaction rising in those with more conservative views.
Since ecological politics has to do with coexisting with other lifeforms even if they are threatening or disgusting;
And since Kantian taste is about knowing how to appear disgusted at the right moment (Derrida's brilliant essay “Economimesis” explores that);
And since the whole Kantian edifice (hence correlationism) operates through the aesthetic;
It seems mightily important to me that we investigate this.
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