tailieunhanh - Aesthetic, Ethical, and Cognitive Value

A British visitor to the Rocky Mountains, despite the fact that his Denver hosts had urged him, 'You'll love the Rockies', complained that there were too many trees of too few kinds, mostly the same monotonous evergreens, too many rocks, too much sun too high in the sky, not enough water, the scale was too big and there were not enough signs of humans, no balanced elements of form and colour, nothing like the Lake District or the Scottish lochs. 16 Can one argue that he was wrong? One argument is that he did not have the right scientific categories | Aesthetic Ethical and Cognitive Value 1 Cain Todd Department of Philosophy Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YG . Abstract This paper addresses two recent debates in aesthetics the moralist debate concerning the relationship between the ethical and aesthetic evaluations of artworks and the cognitivist debate concerning the relationship between the cognitive and aesthetic evaluations of artworks. Although the two debates appear to concern quite different issues I argue that the various positions in each are marked by the same types of confusions and ambiguities. In particular they demonstrate a persistent and unjustified conflation of aesthetic and artistic value which in turn is based on a more general failure to explicitly tackle the demarcation of aesthetic value. As such the claims of each side are rendered ambiguous in respect of the relation that is supposed to hold between all these types of value and artistic value. These issues are discussed in light of a recent argument proposed by Matthew Kieran to undermine to some extent the conceptual distinction between aesthetic cognitive-ethical and artistic values in our appraisal of art works. In rejecting his argument I defend the conceptual distinction and a pluralistic conception of artistic value that allows for cognitive and ethical values to count as artistic but not aesthetic values. 1. The Moralist Debate A favourite recurring example in contemporary philosophical discussion about the relation between the ethical and aesthetic evaluation of works of art is Leni Riefenstahl s film Triumph of the Will. This is held by some autonomists to be a paradigmatic case of how a negative ethical evaluation of the work s deplorable propagandistic message nevertheless does not detract from or indeed has no impact on its artistic or aesthetic merit. By opponents of autonomism it is taken on the contrary to be a clear case in 1 2007 Cain Todd licensee South African Journal of Philosophy. This .

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