ABSTRACT
The most conspicuous extrinsic contrast resides in the universal object-domain of aesthetic as opposed to the narrowly confined area of moral valuation. The territory of the moral none the less appears tiny in comparison with that of the aesthetic. It would be erroneous to infer from this consideration, even combined with the one to follow presently, that the moral could be soundly interpreted as a sub-division of the aesthetic. Another consideration similarly appears to favour a subordination of the moral to the aesthetical. In some important sense the receptive and responsive way of being definitely precedes and underlies ones' properly elective and practical acts. This chapter suggests that aesthetic value experience, pervading the whole of experience more universally and embodying a more primal mode of experience, is prior to moral and a precondition to it; whereas moral experience definitely is not a precondition to aesthetical.
