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Another look at immoral art
| Resumo: | Does an ethical flaw necessarily constitute an aesthetic flaw? Many philosophers tend to think that by removing the moral defects of an artwork one would also be able to improve it in artistic terms. Because it is hard to imagine how this ethical cleansing would produce aesthetic improvements, other philosophers prefer to keep moral and artistic issues separated. But because it is also hard to imagine how these issues can be kept apart in the case of way too many artworks, some other philosophers prefer to consider the author’s moral intention, however dubious or immoral it may be, as an important condition for the aesthetic understanding of the work. These are the three most common ways of considering the relation between the moral and the artistic qualities of a work of art: autonomism, ethicism and immoralism. This paper proposes a survey of the three philosophical theories and assumes a position in favour of the latter. |
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| Autores principais: | Moura, Vítor |
| Assunto: | Aesthetics Immoralism |
| Ano: | 2011 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | comunicação em conferência |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | Does an ethical flaw necessarily constitute an aesthetic flaw? Many philosophers tend to think that by removing the moral defects of an artwork one would also be able to improve it in artistic terms. Because it is hard to imagine how this ethical cleansing would produce aesthetic improvements, other philosophers prefer to keep moral and artistic issues separated. But because it is also hard to imagine how these issues can be kept apart in the case of way too many artworks, some other philosophers prefer to consider the author’s moral intention, however dubious or immoral it may be, as an important condition for the aesthetic understanding of the work. These are the three most common ways of considering the relation between the moral and the artistic qualities of a work of art: autonomism, ethicism and immoralism. This paper proposes a survey of the three philosophical theories and assumes a position in favour of the latter. |
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