[ExI] John C. Wright Interview

[Damien Broderick]

At 02:35 PM 1/26/2008 -0800, PJ replied to Lee:

> > The same cannot be said for literature.  It's redeeming virtue
> > is instead beauty.  And if a lot of people don't happen to like
> > something, then that's all, ultimately, that there is to it.
>
><sigh>
>
>Not true.  Great art is considered great because at some fundamental
>level, it reveals perceived truth.

I'm chary of the word "truth" even with that cautious "perceived" in 
front of it--perhaps we might say that art stimulates or occasions 
insight? If that insight includes an uncomfortable awareness of one's 
own current limitations under confrontation with the aesthetic (and 
sometimes ideological) challenge, so much the better.

Damien Broderick