{"id":2491,"date":"2018-05-05T08:25:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T12:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2018-05-07T16:54:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T20:54:25","slug":"can-you-separate-an-artists-work-from-their-beliefs-can-you-separate-different-parts-of-a-persons-moral-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/05\/05\/can-you-separate-an-artists-work-from-their-beliefs-can-you-separate-different-parts-of-a-persons-moral-character\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you separate an artist&#8217;s work from their beliefs?  Can you separate different parts of a person&#8217;s moral character?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2479\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2479\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW05052018-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2479\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW05052018-1-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"Can you separate an artist's work from their beliefs? Can you separate different parts of a person's moral character?\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Can you separate an artist&#8217;s work from their beliefs?<br \/>Can you separate different parts of a person&#8217;s moral character?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Those are not easy questions to answer. The Wall is feeling a little ancient today, so it will start by recommending Plato&#8217;s dialogue Ion, in which Socrates interviews a poet to determine whether he&#8217;s an expert on what he writes about. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-ion\">bit.ly\/bc-ion<\/a>. Ancient ethical theory tended to think of virtuous people, where modern thought tends to think of virtuous actions, so it kinda depends on who you ask. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-ethics\">bit.ly\/bc-ethics<\/a>. More immediately, you might be interested in reading Molly Ringwald think through her complex reactions now to the movies she made with John Hughes. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-metoo\">bit.ly\/bc-metoo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those are not easy questions to answer. The Wall is feeling a little ancient today, so it will start by recommending Plato&#8217;s dialogue Ion, in which Socrates interviews a poet to determine whether he&#8217;s an expert on what he writes about. bit.ly\/bc-ion. Ancient ethical theory tended to think of virtuous people, where modern thought tends &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/05\/05\/can-you-separate-an-artists-work-from-their-beliefs-can-you-separate-different-parts-of-a-persons-moral-character\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can you separate an artist&#8217;s work from their beliefs?  Can you separate different parts of a person&#8217;s moral character?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2566,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}