Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art? | Tolstoy's Definition of Art | Philosophy Core Concepts
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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.
This Core Concept video focuses on Leo Tolstoy's book, What Is Art? and discusses the definition of Art that he provides in the work, construing it as a means of communion between people.
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Fantastic summary with a clarity/simplicity which is often rare in videos, so thank you for this!
glad you enjoyed it
On my first class on Aesthetics in my history of the arts course, our teacher asked every one of us in class to devise our explanation on what is art about. During that semester we mostly dealt with Plato's and Aristoteles' definitions and musings on art (with a final essay having to analyse a piece of art through greek mimesis), but a lot of this video reminded me of that first class, seeing what definitions fit both with each other's definitions, what fits pre-existing artworks and the blindspots of each. I'll definetively try to read the book before the next semester of Aesthetics begins!
Tolstoy is definitely worth reading
My favorite fiction writer! Thank you so much Sadler!
You're welcome!
Please make one on cyncism and diogenes and Antisthenes. There isnt much on internet about it. Appreciate your efforts and hard work.
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Tolstoy! How exciting! Thank you, Doctor Sadler!
You're welcome!
I have been thinking along these lines lately with respect to music. For example, it seems that if one is to really enjoy a great band one has to be aware that they are also appreciated by some community, if even an obscure cult. I seem to have a similar dilemma when it comes to "one hit wonders" or those ill-fated bands who only make one album and then vanish into obscurity. There needs to be some kind of organic traction to really pull me in. I have indeed been thinking in terms of there being a necessary communion (the religious implications here quite intriguing to my Catholic mind). As is always the case, just as I begin musing on what I feel is an original thought, some great mind has developed the idea years before. Another great text to add to my modest library.
Thank you so much Gregory B Sadler
You're very welcome!
Love Tolstoy so much, as always thank you for the quality upload :-)
If you take suggestions, i would love to see a video on "Bethink yourself" or "what i believe", or any other works by Tolstoy you enjoy.
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Thanks for the great upload!
Can you please tell us a little about Friedrich Schiller?
There's almost nothing on the internet about his thought.
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Thank you so much for sharing! it was very helpful for my exam
You're very welcome
Thank you for this! ❤
You're welcome!
Wow I didn't see this one coming. Definitely a great choice!
Glad you enjoyed it. If you watch the monthly update videos, you'll know what's coming up
@@GregoryBSadler Thanks, I'll start following it from now on
What are examples of music that convey the feeling of triumph over adversity? Please comment your suggestions.
This reminds me of Hume on sympathy on morals. What would you say are 3 works of art that portray wisdom? Thank you.
There is a similarity there
Nuice
Art is that which move the soul, makes us better for having them in our life? It is a subject measure for sure, but tell me has so called art of White on white or the works of Barnett Newman ever did anying for anyone, rather then to ponder of how far our expectations have fallen?
That's pretty simple to answer, right? Would Tolstoy consider those art?
Tolstoy's normative definition of art, and by extension his conception of aesthetics, is troubling in the following ways: art is ultimately moralistic; anything purely for pleasure is degenerate. Since art is "process of infection", any free propogation of art in the wild, so to speak, could be dangerous to society. There is no accommodation of art for the sake of, for example, free play of imagination in the audience. If art does not have purposive and controlled moral message, then for Tolstoy it's worthless. Late in life he called this "moral message" as "religious feelings." He also suspects any art just for the elite (he cites opera) as not true art. In short, his normative definition, if one reads the specifics, we notice all these gaping holes. Have you noticed these holes?
EDIT: after Dr. Sadler called my comment hyperbole, I went back to review Tolstoy and read more recent scholarship, such as from Brown Univ., Yale, and Stanford researchers. Read Prof. Guyer, for example. My characterization of Tolstoy above is not hyperbole. In fact it may have been too generous considering the role of imaginative play in the defintion of art that Tolstoy rejects completely. The fatal flaw they cite, that I've not above, is Tolstoy's reliance on religious mysticism as the sole justification of art.
If my comments are uncomfortable to your supporters or patrons, you can delete them. But I cannot in good conscience self-censor or ignore them as you implied in your reaction comment below.
Yep. But I don't call them "gaping holes", because I avoid hyperbole, which I've come to find distasteful. I first encountered this work about 30 years ago, so presumably I've noticed a few features to it in the times I read it
He's got a different definition of art than a lot of other people. I present it in the video. Don't like the Tolstoy videos, don't watch 'em
@@GregoryBSadler I like your videos, I don't like to reasses Tolstoy every few years.
Avocado Pirate cool. See you again when I’m done releasing Tolstoy videos then. No sense you spending your time on something you don’t like
sadler is right and it is hyperbole though. just because his opinion is contentious does not mean there are any "gaping holes", which you still have not at all proven. all you've done is list ivy unis... and moved the goalpost to to proving that he thought "religious mysticism is the sole justification of art" (something you also admitted wasn't even necessarily an opinion of his when he wrote this). doubling down on your feelings is childish btw
@@itstoogooditswaytoogood3211 How do we know you're not some religious nut case who's also got a reading comprehension problem?