Hitler

Did Hitler know he was a bad person?

By / / Epistemology, Ethics (Moral Philosophy) / , , ,

Thank you, Arjun Sambhi, for this important and profound question. This is an important and profound question. Hitler did horrible acts, but did he think his actions were bad? To answer that question, we need to be honest about how we think about moral issues. Popular culture has instilled in us a simplistic vision of […]

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Should art be separated from the artist?

By / / Aesthetics, Philosophy of human nature, Value Theory / ,

Thank you, Alex Impey, for a great question! Let’s first try to understand the question a little better before attempting to answer it. The question involves two deeply loaded concepts: ‘art’ and ‘separation’. I will stick to an intuitive, common-sense understanding of ‘art’ and will take ‘separated’ to mean ‘treated independently’.  It is also important

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