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- Title
CONTRARY FEELINGS AND TICOGNITIVE SIGNIFICANCE OF ART.
- Authors
León, María José Alcaraz
- Abstract
Emotional response to artworks as a source of moral training or experimentation has long been disputed in the history of aesthetics. In this article I address the matter by focusing upon a kind of specimen that may by especially troublesome for an advocate of art's capacity to educate our sentiments. The cases I focus upon - which I place under the label of the asymmetry problem - are those in which our emotional or evaluative response seems contrary to the one we would have expected when the represented contents are real. I critically review some of the main arguments offered to explain these cases and to challenge the role of art in improving morals. I seek to explain why these responses are not as problematic as one may initially think and to consider in a new light art's capacity to shape our sensibilities.
- Publication
Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics, 2011, Vol 48, Issue 1, p63
- ISSN
0014-1291
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.33134/eeja.77