An Ethical Analysis Of Aesthetic Taste

This paper, based on the social reality and focusing on the commonly seen distortion of the individual aesthetic taste nowadays, points out that society’s preference and fever for cheesy behavior is not only simply a culture phenomenon. Rather, it is an attack towards the current ethical system. Faced with this reality problem, it is necessary to carry out aesthetic ethical analyse. This paper performs the discrimination in ethic level on "taste", analyzes the ethic limit of "no-debate for taste", the accepted ethical bottom-line should be based on the rational judgment of the individual. Describes the ethic explanation of "taste levels". Secondly, combining with the western aesthetic field "made with ugly beauty" to the "ugliness as beauty" and Chinese academic circles from "worship beauty or ugliness" to accept the "ugliness" culture evolution, pointed out that under the influence of the consumption age, ugliness and trend of development mainly displayed in the pathological network ugliness and culture. The reason for the social aesthetic taste distortion is further analyzed stating that the moral deficiency of aesthetic body and the moral disintegration of aesthetic environment are the causes for the phenomenon, and the aesthetic taste distortion is proved to have bad influence to worsen the morbid personality and indulge negative culture. At the end of this paper, the solution to the problem in the perspective of morality is proposed, including cultivating the good with morality, showing kindness with virtue, and purifying the custom, thus to form a moral guidance for the aesthetic taste, give a full play to the function of moral education in the process of aesthetic appreciation and improve the moral atmosphere that forms aesthetic taste.