Maimonides’ aesthetics: a personal image ethics
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https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-47272022000200171Keywords:
ethics, aesthetics, Maimonides, Jewish philosophy, communicationAbstract
We discuss the relevance of a brief prescription of the Ethics of the Fathers, a short Talmud treatise, which asks what should be the correct path that the person must take. This path is – depending on the translation of the original text in Hebrew-, related to the person’s self-image and the image projected towards others. From the perspective of a hermeneutic of a “spiritual aesthetics,” we analyze the implications of a utilitarian hedonism to support an ethic of communication in today's digital media ecosystem dominated by the projection of people’s personal image.
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