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Art, emotion and ethics / Berys Gaut.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaut, Berys Nigel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics.
- Ethics.
- Art--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 269 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Art, Emotion and Ethics is a systematic investigation of the relation of art to morality, a topic that has been of central and recurring interest to the philosophy of art since Plato. Berys Gaut explores the various positions that have been taken in this debate, and argues that an artwork is always aesthetically flawed insofar as it possesses a moral defect that is aesthetically relevant. Three main arguments are developed for this view; these involve showing how moralgoodness is itself a kind of beauty, that artworks can teach us about morality and that this is under certain conditions an aes
- Contents:
- The long debate
- Aesthetics and ethics : basic concepts
- A conceptual map
- Autonomism
- Artistic and critical practices
- Questions of character
- The cognitive argument : the epistemic claim
- The cognitive argument : the aesthetic claim
- Emotion and imagination
- The merited response argument.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-262) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786611164294
- 9780199571529
- 019957152X
- 9781281164292
- 1281164291
- 9780191532436
- 0191532436
- 9781435622227
- 1435622227
- OCLC:
- 183915527
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