ABSTRACT
Matters are no better when one thinks of discussions of the relation between art and morality. One way to articulate the notion that something is up with morality might be through the thought that morality is always expressive of the culture in which it is embedded, as the ethics of Aristotle, Kant, Mill and Alasdair MacIntyre clearly are. But then we cannot foreclose on the possibility that we have available to us morality transcending possibilities of judging those cultural expressions. The debate about the definition of art has always been cast as a debate about how to distinguish, within the class of things that we make, between those that are art and those that are not. To urge the replacement of the government of law with the government of love is bound up with some thorough-going revision of attitudes. The relationship between artistic experience and reflection on it is a complex matter.
