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i'm thinking that maybe when a philosopher asks what my field of interest is, i should explain what i mean when i say: aesthetics, logic, ethics.
when i say i'm interested in aesthetics, i mean i'm interested in the value of beauty (and sublimity, and even 'cuteness') to the human experience, and all the possible forms that value might take.
when i say i'm interested in logic, i'm interested in learning how to preserve truth and preserve meaning in a bare-bones way distinct from yet as mind-expanding as learning a natural language.
when i'm interested in ethics -- and a broader field of ethics than the study of the right and wrong -- i'm interested in the kind of life one ought to live and for what, if anything, one ought to live it.
when i say i'm interested in aesthetics, i mean i'm interested in the value of beauty (and sublimity, and even 'cuteness') to the human experience, and all the possible forms that value might take.
when i say i'm interested in logic, i'm interested in learning how to preserve truth and preserve meaning in a bare-bones way distinct from yet as mind-expanding as learning a natural language.
when i'm interested in ethics -- and a broader field of ethics than the study of the right and wrong -- i'm interested in the kind of life one ought to live and for what, if anything, one ought to live it.