Art, Emotion and Ethics
by Berys Gaut
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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 show more kind of beauty, that artworks can teach us about morality and that this is under certain conditions an aes show lessTags
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Berys Gaut is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Art, Emotion and Ethics (2007) and co-editor of The Creation of Art (2003) and The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics (2nd edn, 2005).
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