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Aesthetic competence is defined as the capacity to experience relational beauty, goodness, and truth simultaneously. Beauty, goodness, and truth, which are inseparable, are viewed as modes of encounter, the origin of which is traced developmentally to the experience of aesthetic reciprocity between mother and child. The mother’s face (or smile) embodies her beauty, goodness, and truth. A beautiful mother is a good and true mother. Our original acquired capacity for aesthetic reciprocity is more primary and can contain our predisposition for participating in relational ugliness and untruths.
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Hannush, M.J. (2021). Aesthetics: The Capacity for Relational Aesthetics. In: Markers of Psychosocial Maturation. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74315-4_8
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