Models for Thinking About Art
In this lecture Professor Waltertorff discusses the philosophy of art, frequently referred to simply as aesthetics. He begins with the 17th century philosopher Descartes, who in western thought was the first to ask the question, “what does it means to be a human being?” At the heart of Cartesian philosophy is experience: two types of experience, first, the experience of the beholder who is the center of the aesthetic, and second the experience of the aesthetic. Waltertorff, however, thinks responsibility is at the center of the biblical view of being human as well as the center of art. Works of art are objects of human action. He concludes this lecture by contrasting western to the Marxist view of art.
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