There is a balance, the late Susan Sontag, the famous cultural critic, often said, between what is moral and what is aesthetic.  What does this mean?
     We usually see what is moral as that which is more right than wrong.  Morality is the examination of right and wrong and what actions constitute each one.  The aesthetic, on the other hand, has more to do with sensibility and feeling, what is more emotionally or artistically pleasing.  Morality is usually a function of the intellect; the aesthetic usually one of the feelings.  Neither, however, is solely its principal constituent.
     That's Sontag's point.  We cannot be moral unless we are aesthetic, for what is right and wrong is more than an intellectual exercise; it is a habit of the heart.  Not only must we believe in our mind that something is more right than wrong, we must also believe it in our heart.  Yet we cannot be aesthetic without being moral; otherwise, art and all of its expressions have no real meaning.
     Life is an aesthetic experience, full of feeling, rapture, and wonder.  Yet it is a highly moral enterprise, too, grounded in ideas of right and wrong, framed in a ethical posture.  Real life must be moral--and ground itself in the fact of a moral structure--if it is to have foundation for its aesthetic expression.
     So did the Jonathan Edwards, the great Puritan preacher, observe that in the end, it is our affections, the aesthetic of our fervor and passion for morality, truth, and God, that make life fully genuine and lasting.