Ep. 79: Politics Doesn't Care About Your Art
Young Heretics
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How Art Trains Our Emotions
Socrates says we should only pretend to be people who are virtuous, because then the virtue will get eno kind of habituated into us. And so what socrates, and plato, through socrates, is observing is that art has this very primal, deep effect on our emotions. Our emotions are part of our ethics, right? How you feel about something. If you react to injustice with horror and anger,right? Then you are a different kind of person than if you woue o act to it with glee rit. So art trains our ethical sensibilities. And we all know it does this. Write, docere moere a, delectare rig
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