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Episode 231: Ideal Critics (Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste")

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Is It OK for Me to Enjoy Works of Art That Are Immoral?

Is it ok for me to enjoy works of art that are immoral, either that the artist is immoral or that the work itself is immoral? And men triumph of the will, and mentioned some like nineties rat music and an opea. He doesn't think you'll be corrupted by it, like plato or socrates says in the republic. But he also used the example of markof mark twain and huckleberry finn. It's like, if you're just knockging to read that stuff, because there's races elements to it.

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