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Podcast: Parallax
Episode: In conversation with John Vervaeke and Christopher Mastropietro #4: Reinventing Art
Description: Is art moral?  Why was Plato censorious of art?   Does art have a political function? How is art educational? Should art and philosophy be combined?  What is the difference between art and entertainment?  Is art about individual or communal expression?  How is art related to what John calls ‘dialogos’?
Here we continue to ‘reinventio’—the latin word which means to both invent and discover— perennial and popular subjects.  We discuss the purpose and function of art from various perspectives: John from the point of view of cognitive science and philosophy, Christopher from the point of view theater and narrative, and...