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Beauty as justification

Beauty as justification argues that something beautiful enough might not need to serve any other purpose—that aesthetic experience is its own sufficient reason to exist. This cuts against utilitarian thinking while remaining philosophically serious about what constitutes a worthwhile human life.

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