aesthetico-moral

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating jointly to aesthetic values and moral judgments or principles

   The critic's aesthetico-moral argument treated beauty and ethical worth as inseparable standards.

Formed from aesthetico-, the combining form of aesthetic, and moral. Aesthetic ultimately derives from Ancient Greek aisthetikos, 'of sense perception,' while moral comes through Latin moralis, 'relating to conduct or custom,' from mos, 'custom.' The compound joins judgments of beauty or taste with judgments of right and wrong.

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