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Most of them have to do with causing harm to other members of the community and violating their rights as they are defined within the community. For example murder is almost universally considered as an immoral act. However, there are situations for which murder is considered justifiable. A court will find someone innocent of murder if they can ...
- Introduction
- Moralism and Immoralism
- Robust (Im)Moralism?
- Admirable Immorality and Immoralism
- Immoralism Without ‘Moralism’?
- Conclusion
Immoralism in aesthetics states that immoral artworks can be aesthetically better in virtue of their immorality. A. W. Eaton’s recent defence of what she calls a robust version of immoralism occasions a reconsideration of that position, previously defended by Daniel Jacobson and Matthew Kieran, among others.1 Yet, I argue in this paper, Eaton’s ver...
While I assume broad familiarity with the moralism debate, there are some issues that call for clarification. First, let me explain how I understand immoralism here in relation to competing views, like moralism and autonomism. By ‘moralism’ here I refer to Gaut’s version of that view (which he terms ‘ethicism’).3 There are several reasons for this ...
In setting out to address shortcomings in previous immoralist accounts, Eaton argues as follows. (i) Sometimes vicious characters in artworks are likeable, and audiences are invited to like them, because of their immorality.15 Furthermore, (ii) works’ inviting us to like such immoral characters because of their immorality constitutes a moral flaw i...
If the foregoing is right, then it looks like the most promising defence of immoralism is based on appeals to moralist intuitions or premises. In order to support immoralism in the way that they envisage it, immoralists have to show that immorality as such can sometimes contribute to aesthetic value. At this stage I think it is worth remarking that...
Taken together, the foregoing considerations cannot but seriously undermine the odds for immoralism: immoralism appears not only unsupported but also oddly self-defeating. So what now for the immoralist? Here are three simple suggestions for how an immoralist might go about launching a rejoinder. 1. (a) First, the immoralist may identify more plaus...
I begun by arguing that Eaton’s recent defence of immoralism suffers from precisely the flaws that she attributes to previous accounts and that she purports to overcome: most conspicuously, it rests on covert moralist assumptions. I then introduced a debate from moral philosophy concerning whether or not there is such a thing as admirable immoralit...
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- 2019
Carroll’s main argument for moderate moralism is the “uptake argument”. Artworks often require emotional uptake, in that they aim at arousing emotional responses in their audience. The moral character of the figures and events represented in the artwork are important to secure the audience’s uptake.
Ordinary discourse about film is pervasively ethical. From our casual conversations about the moral status of cinematic villains and heroines, through debates about the effects of the portrayal of violence by Hollywood International, to arguments about the portrayal of sex and sexuality, film talk is intimately tied up with ethical concerns and evaluations.
Immoralism allows individuals to act according to their own desires and interests, without being constrained by external moral codes. In contrast, moralism holds individuals accountable to universal moral truths that dictate what is right and wrong. One key difference between immoralism and moralism is their views on the nature of morality ...
Mar 19, 2015 · Immoralism therefore seems to be defensible only from the viewpoint of a morality, which makes it appear to be as self-refuting as another notorious Nietzschean claim, that truths are illusions. I have argued elsewhere that Nietzsche actually overcame this paradoxical claim about truth in his later works, starting with his Genealogy of Morals ( Clark 1990 ).
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It is important to stress that immoralism does not rule out the possibility, explored by moderate moralism and ethicism, of moral flaws that impact negatively the artistic value of a work. Immoralism is simply committed to the additional claim that sometimes a moral flaw may enhance the artistic value of a work of art. Art and Moral Knowledge
