Art, Moral Value, and Significance
| dc.contributor.author | Thompson, Ryan Mitchell | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-08-10T23:35:16Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-05-04T20:12:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Debate concerning the relationship between ethics and aesthetics has re-emerged in contemporary aesthetic literature. All of the major contemporary positions, I argue, treat this relationship as existing between the "moral value" of art and its aesthetic value. Throughout this thesis I analyse the various "value- based" positions (ethicism, moderate moralism, and contextualism) and examine whether their accounts of this relationship hold. My aim is to explore whether an alternative account - in which the aesthetic value of art can be enhanced or negated through its "moral significance", rather than its "moral value" - is plausible. I argue, that given the failure of these value- based positions we should favour a "significance- based contexutalist" approach that is better equipped to account for the complexity of both our engagement with art, and the moral reflection that it invites. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9479 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.26021/4297 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | University of Canterbury. Philosophy | en |
| dc.relation.isreferencedby | NZCU | en |
| dc.rights | Copyright Ryan Mitchell Thompson | en |
| dc.rights.uri | https://canterbury.libguides.com/rights/theses | en |
| dc.subject | Art | en |
| dc.subject | Ethics | en |
| dc.subject | Autonomism | en |
| dc.subject | Moralism | en |
| dc.subject | Ethicism | en |
| dc.subject | Prescribed Response | en |
| dc.subject | Moral Significance | en |
| dc.subject | Moral Value | en |
| dc.subject | Merited Response | en |
| dc.subject | Imaginative Resistance | en |
| dc.subject | Contextualism | en |
| dc.subject | Immoralism | en |
| dc.subject | Cognitive | en |
| dc.title | Art, Moral Value, and Significance | en |
| dc.type | Theses / Dissertations | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Philosophy | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Canterbury | en |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts | en |
| uc.bibnumber | 2036437 | |
| uc.college | Faculty of Arts | en |