Episode 231: Ideal Critics (Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste")
Very Bad Wizards
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Art Is Art, and You Don't Have to Like It
Art is art, and you don't have to like it, but i would put money on that people don't get corrupted morally from reading huck finn. That's a line i would like to draw firmly in the sand too, which is art. It also, he also says, religious principles are ok, like, you have to cut them some slack if they tleave some crazy religion, unless it's superstitious. Thisis another weird one. Is it ever permitted to judge of the civility or wisdom of any people, or even of single persons, by the grossness or refinement of their theological principles? The same good sense that directs men in the ordinary occurrences of life
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