Art and Morality. Tolstoy vs. Leontiev

DOI

10.2991/icadce-16.2016.20How to use a DOI?

Keywords

art; morality; communication; feeling; infection; sincerity; religious consciousness

Abstract

Art influences people in different ways; in particular, it may cause certain moral effects. Is it right to say that the purpose of art is to produce certain moral impact on people or that its values depend essentially on how moral it is The following paper observes aesthetic views of two famous Russian philosophers, Leo Tolstoy and Konstantin Leontiev, and, in particular, their conceptions of the relation between art and morality. It argues that although their accounts are in many respects antagonistic both thinkers agree that there is a profound link between artistic and moral values.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Konstantin Antonov
AU  - Alexey Chernyak
PY  - 2016/05
DA  - 2016/05
TI  - Art and Morality. Tolstoy vs. Leontiev
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 97
EP  - 103
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icadce-16.2016.20
DO  - 10.2991/icadce-16.2016.20
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