PHIL 2170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Feminist Pornography, Misogyny, Harm Principle
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The art/pornography debate may complicate matters, but you can"t ignore the incorrigible social meanings of the images themselves. Exclusivism: the idea that are and pornography are two different things and something cannot be both. Reply: if it is pornographic, it is not really art (example, a painting) "so, in order to determine if artworks can be instances of pornography (or vice versa), we will have to know something about the contours of the terms "art" and "pornography". In this chapter, i examine and reject several promising exclusivist arguments including levinson"s attention account, mag. Uidhir"s manner inspecificity account, and an account based on michael rea"s definition of. I then ask what other kinds of considerations might motivate one to preserve the art/pornography distinction. One answer is that it helps to preserve some of our evaluative intentions, especially those that motivate anti-pornography feminists, namely that pornography harms women. However, i argue, issues relating to pornography"s harm cannot preserve an art/pornography distinction.
