Art and moral change

• Verfasst von: Choi, Ki Joo [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Art and moral change
• Titelzusatz: a reexamination
• Verf.angabe: Ki Joo Choi
• Verlagsort: Washington, DC
• Verlag: Georgetown University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: x, 249 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Moral traditions series
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-64712-458-8
• ISBN: 978-1-64712-459-5
• Schlagwörter: (s)Kunst / (s)Moralisches Handeln / (s)Theologische Ethik
• Schlagwörter: (s)Kreativität / (s)Ästhetik / (s)Theologische Ethik
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Choi, Ki Joo: Art and moral change. - Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2024 |(DLC)2023037939
• K10plus-PPN: 1886897905

Abstract

"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"--