The Morality of Art
Art is moral: it seeks to improve life, not debase it.
On Creating Meaningful Art (Pt. 2)
“Art moves us because it is beautiful, and it is beautiful in part because it means something. It can be meaningful without being beautiful; but to be beautiful it must be meaningful.”1
If you missed part 1, you can read it here.
A brief treatment of Kant’s aesthetic philosophy in his Critique of Judgment will demonstrate …
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