Depicting Human Form

Mac Cumhaill, Clare

doi:10.1017/s1358246119000274

Depicting Human Form

Mac Cumhaill, Clare

Authors

Dr Clare Mac Cumhaill clare.maccumhaill@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor

Abstract

This paper involves constructive exegesis. I consider the contrast between morality and art as sketched in Philippa Foot's 1972 paper of the same name, ‘Morality and Art’. I then consider how her views might have shifted against the background of the conceptual landscape afforded by Natural Goodness (2001), though the topic of the relation of art and morality is not explicitly explored in that work. The method is to set out some textual fragments from Natural Goodness that can be arranged for a tentative Footian ‘aesthetics’. I bring them into conversation with some ideas from Iris Murdoch to elucidate what I think the import may be, for Foot, of depicting human form.

Citation

Mac Cumhaill, C. (2020). Depicting Human Form. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements, 87, 151-167. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1358246119000274

Journal Article Type	Article
Online Publication Date	Jun 2, 2020
Publication Date	2020-07
Deposit Date	Nov 7, 2019
Publicly Available Date	Oct 30, 2020
Journal	Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement
Print ISSN	1358-2461
Electronic ISSN	1755-3555
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	87
Pages	151-167
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1017/s1358246119000274

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This article has been published in a revised form in Royal Institute of philosophy supplements http://doi.org/10.1017/S1358246119000274. This version is published under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND. No commercial re-distribution or re-use allowed. Derivative works cannot be distributed. © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2020.