Jul 15, 2024
In his new book published by Word on Fire, Beauty &
Imitation: A Philosophical Reflection on the Arts, philosopher
and novelist Daniel McInerny argues for a recovery of the
Aristotelian understanding of art as fundamentally imitative or
mimetic. More boldly, he claims that this imitation is narrative
and moral in nature, even in art forms that are not typically
considered storytelling arts.
In this episode Daniel introduces this theory of mimesis, after
which there is a robust back-and-forth between Daniel and Thomas on
whether moral narrative is really the primary purpose of arts like
painting and music.
Links
Beauty & Imitation: A Philosophical Reflection on the
Arts https://bookstore.wordonfire.org/products/beauty-and-imitation
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