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Single Idea 22700
[filed under theme 21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
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Full Idea
Humean moralism includes the view that immoral art prescribes unethical emotional responses.
Gist of Idea
Immoral art encourages immoral emotions
Source
Daniel Jacobson (Ethical Criticism and the Vice of Moderation [2006], 'emotional')
Book Ref
'Aesthetics and the Phil of Art (debates)', ed/tr. Kieran,Matthew [Blackwell 2004], p.347
A Reaction
[He cites Hume's 'On the Standard of Taste'] 'Prescribes' is tricky. Is a vivid description of wicked events, given without comment, a prescription? What if the commentary condemns, but the description entices? Trust the work itself, said Lawrence.
The
39 ideas
with the same theme
[relationship between moral and aesthetic values]:
468
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Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues
[Damon of Ath.]
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297
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What is fine is the parent of goodness
[Plato]
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8239
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If the King likes music then there is hope for the state
[Mengzi (Mencius)]
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635
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The good is found in actions, but beauty can exist without movement
[Aristotle]
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2846
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Music can mould the character to be virtuous (just as gymnastics trains the body)
[Aristotle]
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3044
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Stoics say that beauty and goodness are equivalent and linked
[Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
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1907
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Stoics use 'kalon' (beautiful) as a synonym for 'agathon' (good)
[Bury on Stoic school]
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22022
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Beauty motivates morality, by harmonising feeling and reason
[Schiller, by Pinkard]
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22710
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People estimate art according to their moral values
[Tolstoy]
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8125
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The upper classes put beauty first, and thus freed themselves from morality
[Tolstoy]
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8064
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We separate the concept of beauty from goodness, unlike the ancients
[Tolstoy]
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7274
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Books are only well or badly written, not moral or immoral
[Wilde]
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7275
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Having ethical sympathies is a bad mannerism of style in an artist
[Wilde]
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20426
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For pure moralists art must promote right action, and not just be harmless
[Fry]
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22691
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Only artistic qualities matter in art, because they also have the highest moral value
[Bell,C]
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23898
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Those who say immorality is not an aesthetic criterion must show that all criteria are aesthetic
[Weil]
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22347
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Appreciating beauty in art or nature opens up the good life, by restricting selfishness
[Murdoch]
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22712
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Art and morals are essentially the same, and are both identical with love
[Murdoch]
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22714
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Because art is love, it improves us morally
[Murdoch]
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22688
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The Aristotelian idea that choices can be perceived needs literary texts to expound it
[Nussbaum]
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20456
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Interesting art is always organised around ethical demands
[Critchley]
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22696
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'Autonomism' says the morality is irrelevant to the aesthetics
[Jacobson,D]
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22697
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Moral defects of art can be among its aesthetic virtues
[Jacobson,D]
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22702
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Audiences can be too moral
[Jacobson,D]
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22700
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Immoral art encourages immoral emotions
[Jacobson,D]
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22699
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Moderate moralism says moral qualities can sometimes also be aesthetic qualities
[Jacobson,D]
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22698
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We can judge art ethically, or rate its ethical influence, or assess its quality via its ethics
[Jacobson,D]
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22684
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Good ethics counts towards aesthetic merit, and bad ethics counts against it
[Gaut]
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22685
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Good art does not necessarily improve people (any more than good advice does)
[Gaut]
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22689
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If we don't respond ethically in the way a work prescribes, that is an aesthetic failure
[Gaut]
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22690
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'Moralism' says all aesthetic merits are moral merits
[Gaut]
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22692
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A work can be morally and artistically excellent, despite rejecting moral truth
[John,E]
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22693
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The works we value most are in sympathy with our own moral views
[John,E]
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22694
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We should understand what is morally important in a story, without having to endorse it
[John,E]
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22695
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We value morality in art because that is what we care about - but it is a contingent fact
[John,E]
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22705
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If the depiction of evil is glorified, that is an artistic flaw
[Davies,S]
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22707
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It is an artistic defect if excessive moral outrage distorts the story, and narrows our sympathies
[Davies,S]
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22704
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Immorality may or may not be an artistic defect
[Davies,S]
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22706
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A work which seeks approval for immorality, but alienates the audience, is a failure
[Davies,S]
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