ABSTRACT
The relations between art and morality are manifold and complex, and the contributions to this collection do full justice to the richness of the subject matter. This chapter deals with the more theoretical issues emerging at the intersection of ethics and aesthetics. It also deals with those papers exploring the relation between art and morality in more concrete terms, pursuing the theme with reference to particular forms of art, works of art, artistic categories, and historical figures and traditions. This grouping reflects a difference in emphasis, rather than a distinction of principle. The idea that integrity and self-discipline are virtues in an artist is a way of looking at the relation between art and morality that has a distinguished ancestry. Just as philosophy can ask about the relation of art and morality in general, so can it raise the question of its own artistic elements and of their moral force.
