MPC 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Instrumentalism, Mexican Revolution, Diego Rivera
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Artists and poets should be banned from the city, country, society. B/c they can arouse in us emotions that are dangerous. From the exercises of reason and makes us wallow instead. Eclipses our ability to think and reason. Art should be restricted b/c it affects human behaviour. Probably nowhere else has a philosopher denied the value of art so completely. Art serves a purpose to change the world. Art as a means towards an end. Art for a purpose: to transform it. Art as a tool that helps advance some moral, religious, political or psychological purpose. Philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways, the point is to change it (karl marx) Peter bloom put himself in danger to create works that captured what was happening under mussolini. Inner logic of work of art terminates in the emergence of reason, another sensibility which defy the rationality and sensibility Art= another form of language, of understanding the world.