PHIL 234 : PHILOSOPHY AND THE ARTS (A)

This course examines perennial questions concerning beauty in art and nature, the attribution of value, the relation of aesthetic judgment and imagination to cognition and moral duty, and the implications of these questions for inquiries in related disciplines, i.e. linguistics, psychoanalysis, and religious studies. A primary theme will be the truth-value of aesthetic objects and their ontological status as expressive entities or “spiritual objects.” Cross listed as ARTH 234.