O moralismo moderado de Noël Carroll: uma base teórica para a crítica moral das obras de arte.

Abstract

The following work has as its object to demonstrate de results of a research about the answer Noël Carroll supplied to the problem of the relation between moral and art. The position of the author named moderate moralism composes a baseline for the moral critic of works of art. We employed a number of resources also used by the author, as the one of showing its position from a dialectical negotiation to other answers to the problem. Recognizing the importance of Carroll's critic to the consequences of autonomism to the philosophy of art (consequences which strike the possibility of interaction between artistic and moral values), we focused on presenting the resolution of the author to this problem. Observing the fact that the moral critic of works of art suggested by him is still mostly confounded with the puritanical version of it, we dedicated a chapter to the characterization of Carroll's position as moderated, as well as for briefly defending the artistic freedom, in a way that refutes the radical moralist position. At our core chapter, we exposed a general read of Carroll's answer to the central problem of our research, concentrating in his basing on the writings of Aristotle and David Hume, his conceiving of emotive responses to works of art, his definitions of clarificacionism and wheel of virtue, and his defense of a correspondence between the achievements made by some works of art and by thought experiments. Our general ambition was to place Carroll's position as the most substantial and promising one, although it still need some explanations and elucidations. We even resorted in contributions to this discussion and critics of other contemporary philosophers, like Robert Stecker, Matthew Kieran, George Dickie e Alessandro Giovannelli.