Must Good Art Be Liked? Discussion on Deontic Axiology
Must Good Art Be Liked? Discussion on Deontic Axiology

Summary/Abstract: The reply to the question ’must good art be liked?’ depends on axiological, psychological and deontic factors. An affirmative response assumes that decisions of goodness are logically independent of decisions of liking (the ’independence thesis’ (IT)), and that liking is subject to deontic operations (e.g. obligation). An analysis of the fulfilment of these two conditions shows that the supporters of IT erroneously presume that the question could be solved without determining the type of value and the cause of liking. Robust subjectivism logically overturns IT. IT mistakenly presumes that category shifts maintain value criteria. Liking is subjected to deontic operations in the psychological, but not in the dispositional meaning of liking.

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