Art and Morality

An Introduction

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Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-10-01
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Ethics in Practice
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:John Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN:9781405187145

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Acknowledgements xIntroduction xi1 Art, Emotion, and Morality 1Introduction 1Plato and the Theory of Identification 3On Identification as a General Account of Audience/Character EmotiveEngagement 13Emotions, Art, and Criterial Prefocusing 17An Objection: What About Moral Change? 232 Further Criticisms of the Effects of Emotional Engagement with Art 27Introduction 27Plato Redux 28The Imitation Argument 29Questioning the Imitation Argument 32The Illusion Argument 34The Economic Argument 44Descendants of Plato 48Saint Augustine 48The Response Argument 49The Pleasure Argument 51Jean-Jacques Rousseau 53Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) 563 Alternative Positive Views of the Nexus of Art, Emotion, and Morality 60Introduction 60Empathy 61On the Very Many Meanings of “Empathy” 62Empathy and Sympathy 63“What Is Empathy?” 65On the Strong Version of the Common View of Empathy 65Revisiting the Common View of Empathy 67Empathy and Morality 69Is Empathy Ethically Reliable? 72Art, Empathy, and Moral Cultivation 75Simulation 78Explaining Mind-Reading 78What Is Simulation? 79Questioning Simulation 83Appendix: Empathy Revisited 89Admiration 904 Art, Cognition, and Morality 97Introduction 97Part I: For and Against: Specific Skeptical Arguments Regarding MoralCognitivism 98Arguments Against Moral Cognitivism 98Skeptical Arguments Against Art as a Source of Knowledge 98Challenging the Skeptic’s Arguments Against Moral Cognitivism 104The No-Evidence Argument 105The Tainted-Representation Argument 109The No-Argument Argument 110The As-Art Argument 117The No-Expertise Argument 121The No-Artistic-Truths Argument 124The Banality Argument 124The No-Originality Argument 126The No-Critical-Argument Argument 126The Skeptic’s Error Theory 127Part II: Recurring Skeptical Presuppositions Reviewed and Challenged 129Cognitively Valuable? 1305 Autonomism 137Introduction 137The Emergence of Autonomism 137Formalism 144Aesthetic Art Theory 149Summary 1566 Moralism Versus Autonomism 157Introduction 157Extreme Moralism 157Autonomism Redux 159Moderate Moralism Versus Moderate Autonomism 161Objections to Moderate Moralism and Rejoinders 167Index 000