Art and moral change : a reexamination /
This book reconsiders the relationship between aesthetics and theological ethics. The primary question it seeks to answer is whether artistic creativity is a morally relevant activity. Drawing on the work of Jonathan Edwards and Thomas Aquinas, Choi argues that the arts are the cultural medium throu...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Georgetown University Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | Moral traditions series.
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| Summary: | This book reconsiders the relationship between aesthetics and theological ethics. The primary question it seeks to answer is whether artistic creativity is a morally relevant activity. Drawing on the work of Jonathan Edwards and Thomas Aquinas, Choi argues that the arts are the cultural medium through which we can better understand what is morally possible, and that aesthetic objects can serve as snapshots of a particular community's perspectives on the good life. Art, in other words, offers glimpses not only into competing moral visions within society but also the extent to which these contested moral views are understood. The arts, in Choi's view, provide a way of assessing the limits and possibilities of moral reasoning, the contextuality of moral discernment and the need for moral thinking that is dialogical and dialectical. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 249 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781647124588 1647124581 9781647124595 164712459X |