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Full Idea
A work that rejects moral truth can be artistically excellent, in part because of its moral content.
Gist of Idea
A work can be morally and artistically excellent, despite rejecting moral truth
Source
Eileen John (Artistic Value and Opportunistic Moralism [2006], Intr)
Book Ref
'Aesthetics and the Phil of Art (debates)', ed/tr. Kieran,Matthew [Blackwell 2004], p.331
A Reaction
She cites the film 'Trainspotting', about desperate drug addicts, because it gives an amoral insight into their world.
| 22692 | A work can be morally and artistically excellent, despite rejecting moral truth [John,E] |
| 22693 | The works we value most are in sympathy with our own moral views [John,E] |
| 22694 | We should understand what is morally important in a story, without having to endorse it [John,E] |
| 22695 | We value morality in art because that is what we care about - but it is a contingent fact [John,E] |