Artworks are Valuable for Their Own Sake
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21876369 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerad Gentry (0000-0003-3633-7345, Cal Poly Humboldt, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 234-252 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Philosophical Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2053-4477 • E-ISSN: 2053-4485 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/apa.2022.5 |
| OpenAlex | W4281625738 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 15 |
To hold that artworks are valuable for their own sake—regardless of whatever secondary value they may have, such as entertainment, formation, education, or a pleasurable experience—is to hold that their final worth is not derived from external or secondary ends. I call this collective set of views the end-in-itself view (or EI view). Nicholas Stang recently leveled a twofold charge of reductio ad absurdum and operating from a double standard against the EI view. In this article, I refute Stang by showing that the charges do not obtain for at least one variation of the EI view that holds artworks to be valuable for their own sake as internally purposive ends-in-themselves (the IP view)
Aesthetics · Art · Entertainment · Epistemology · Reductio ad absurdum · Statistics · Visual arts · Computer Science · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |