"How might an artwork function to let its artist avoid accountability in their life, and how might it function to help them become accountable in their life? This question is more specific than the general question-asked at least since Rousseau's Discourse on the Arts and Sciences- of how artistic culture might let a culture avoid accountability to basic expectations of social justice and of professional and personal integrity. Rousseau opened up the problem of ideology."
"At its origin, when ancient Greeks started using the neologism, "philosophy" indicated a practice in which people tried to live better by way of being thoughtful and communicative, spending time talking together as friends, and trying to figure out what the order of the universe is and how to live clearly and well in it. Thus, a tradition was born lasting thousands of years in which philosophy is a way of life, an ethos, the root of our word "ethics.""
The question examines how artworks can enable artists to avoid accountability or, conversely, to foster accountability in their lives. The inquiry narrows the broader debate—originating with Rousseau—about whether artistic culture permits societies to evade obligations of social justice and personal integrity, and identifies ideology as a central problem. The account adopts philosophical assumptions that philosophy is an enacted practice aimed at living better, not merely abstract theorizing. Ancient Greek usage of "philosophy" emphasized thoughtful, communicative living among friends, public reasoning, openness to question, and the cultivation of a life oriented toward meaning and ethical clarity.
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