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The Morality of Art

Art is moral: it seeks to improve life, not debase it.

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Apr 30, 2022
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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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