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• The questions "What is art?" and "What is good art?" are related.

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• Plato and Aristotle proposed that art is imitation. Plato condemned art because it was only an imitation, but Aristotle held that art could provide insight into reality and could provide a catharsis of our feelings.

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• The Romantics claimed that art is expression of feeling and that good art expresses feeling well. Benedetto Croce agreed.

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• Clive Bell argues that art is significant form, relating his theory to the aesthetic theory of beauty.

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• A recent approach to art claims that art is whatever an artworld says it is.

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• Arthur Danto has argued that art has ended because the artist has become a philosopher.

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• The theistic response to the question of the meaning of life holds that the meaning of life is to be explained in terms of the individual's relationship to a larger divine plan.

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• Hegel and Marx define the meaning of life in terms of contributing toward human progress. For Hegel, history progresses toward a fuller expansion of freedom; for Marx, history progresses toward a classless society. Fukuyama argues that the end of history has passed, so there is no longer any human progress.

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• The nihilist response to the meaning of life is the claim that life has no meaning.

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• The existentialists Søren Kierkegaard and Jean-Paul Sartre argue that the meaning of life is created by what one chooses.