I do not accept that artistic or pure aesthetic pursuits are the highest good. The individuator, in pure pursuit of being perfect and brilliant, in his original chase after excellence applied to the fine art of his choice--for example, playing the cello--, is a very good person, but artistic superbness flows out of moral goodness that flows out of spiritual goodness that is God's love coursing out into, through and through out the universe.
In other words, spiritual goodness is the highest good. Moral goodness comes next and aesthetic goodness is third.
That said, aesthetic ends are a good totally worth pursuing for their own sake alone. Those that are spiritual or ethical advocates of those types of goodness will not interfere with artists doing their own thing.
Good people are moderates, and if one is an artist primarily, or a moralist primarily, or a religious believer primarily. They will not compete with each other, but praise and support each other.
We good people are not gloomy Puritans intolerant of those that are secuclar ethicists or chainsaw sculptors. There are many ways to God--as long as people do not group-live, commit crimes, grow government or openly worship Lucifer, we can be rather tolerant of their diverse and competing interests.
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