Affiliation:
1. University of Colorado Philosophy Department , Boulder, CO 80309 , USA
Abstract
Abstract
Strong comic immoralism maintains that every time a humorous demonstration (for example, a joke) involves a moral defect, it is enhanced aesthetically in virtue of having this moral defect. I want to show that strong comic immoralism is a coherent position, that it is possible to defend, and that there is, in fact, some reason to defend it. By doing this, my hope is that, moving forward, those who are interested in questions about the relationship between immorality and the aesthetic value of jokes will take more seriously the objections that may be presented against their views by the strong comic immoralist, rather than claiming that “no one on this side of Satan” would be one.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Music,Philosophy,Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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