Aesthetics: Crash Course Philosophy #31
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Jamie
there is a major flaw in the autonomous view of art.
If -art- and -morality- are totally separate, then I could kill someone, use their blood and bile to make a portrait with their skin as the canvas. frame it with their entrails, and create a stand with their bones. Take the entire piece, name it -the utility of humanity- and since it's art, I wouldn't be able to be judged on moral grounds for the fact that I killed someone in order to create it.
Even if I was imprisoned for murder, I could still say -I did nothing wrong- and I wouldn't even be lying because everything I did, I did as art.
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there is a major flaw in the autonomous view of art.
If -art- and -morality- are totally separate, then I could kill someone, use their blood and bile to make a portrait with their skin as the canvas. frame it with their entrails, and create a stand with their bones. Take the entire piece, name it -the utility of humanity- and since it's art, I wouldn't be able to be judged on moral grounds for the fact that I killed someone in order to create it.
Even if I was imprisoned for murder, I could still say -I did nothing wrong- and I wouldn't even be lying because everything I did, I did as art.
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David
I like the autonomous view in principle, but I don't think it's reasonable to portray the intention of art as a total moral shield. While the art itself can't be right or wrong, the artist and his actions to create his art enjoy no such exemption. If, for instance, you put goldfish in blenders and invite the audience to kill them, you are culpable for that, regardless of your intention to create art. So is the sadist who pushed the button. If the artist drew a picture of fish in blenders instead, that is fine. Depiction is not reality.
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I like the autonomous view in principle, but I don't think it's reasonable to portray the intention of art as a total moral shield. While the art itself can't be right or wrong, the artist and his actions to create his art enjoy no such exemption. If, for instance, you put goldfish in blenders and invite the audience to kill them, you are culpable for that, regardless of your intention to create art. So is the sadist who pushed the button. If the artist drew a picture of fish in blenders instead, that is fine. Depiction is not reality.
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Renee
What if why this feels really really good is that it renews our knowledge almost as prepare ourselves to be able to better understand and read others emotions and everything surrounding them to make decisions from there, from that which is being prepared to be a precise and as rounded as possible conclusion as to what is happening to another human on the emotional level.
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What if why this feels really really good is that it renews our knowledge almost as prepare ourselves to be able to better understand and read others emotions and everything surrounding them to make decisions from there, from that which is being prepared to be a precise and as rounded as possible conclusion as to what is happening to another human on the emotional level.
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Sam
The aesthetic is a concept fundamentally linked to modernity. We needed some way to interact with nature once religion lost its authority. Instead of assuming that meaning is inherent within nature (God's grace, the idea of aesthetics gave us another way to view nature. And at the same time we rationalised the process of nature's destruction
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The aesthetic is a concept fundamentally linked to modernity. We needed some way to interact with nature once religion lost its authority. Instead of assuming that meaning is inherent within nature (God's grace, the idea of aesthetics gave us another way to view nature. And at the same time we rationalised the process of nature's destruction
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Keith
I gather an audience in an art gallery, handing them hammers, cans of spray paint, and utility knives. I tell them: -Now, feel free to break windows, slash canvases, and deface the walls with graffiti. -
I didn't kill anything, but I generated many thousands of dollars in property damage. Did I also create art?
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I gather an audience in an art gallery, handing them hammers, cans of spray paint, and utility knives. I tell them: -Now, feel free to break windows, slash canvases, and deface the walls with graffiti. -
I didn't kill anything, but I generated many thousands of dollars in property damage. Did I also create art?
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Renee
What if expression through art that encourages bad attitudes by existing apart from moral influence and goes against aesthetic value bc of it can be used to expose these kinds of problems and therefore place an opportunity for these underlying problems expressed to be constructively and sincerely addressed
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What if expression through art that encourages bad attitudes by existing apart from moral influence and goes against aesthetic value bc of it can be used to expose these kinds of problems and therefore place an opportunity for these underlying problems expressed to be constructively and sincerely addressed
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Cubius
You know how you like to go to certain places because they make you feel nice because the area is appealing. that's aesthetics working its magic.
It can turn a drab concrete jungle into a living space filled with life.
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You know how you like to go to certain places because they make you feel nice because the area is appealing. that's aesthetics working its magic.
It can turn a drab concrete jungle into a living space filled with life.
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Jacob
You're a sadist to kill fish for no reason, yet we eat them despite not needing to for any biological reason. Is killing for sadistic pleasure any less justified than killing for sensory pleasure (taste?
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You're a sadist to kill fish for no reason, yet we eat them despite not needing to for any biological reason. Is killing for sadistic pleasure any less justified than killing for sensory pleasure (taste?
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medo
We can put Evaristie in a big mixer. Artwork have immune to criticism. and then we have a greater chance of watching the reaction of audience clearly, above his reaction as well
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We can put Evaristie in a big mixer. Artwork have immune to criticism. and then we have a greater chance of watching the reaction of audience clearly, above his reaction as well
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Nuff
5: 16 he said chom choms instead of bananas -
And i was like wait i have heard this word somewhere
Only those who have been watching this entire series would understand
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5: 16 he said chom choms instead of bananas -
And i was like wait i have heard this word somewhere
Only those who have been watching this entire series would understand
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