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Moral Tales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

R. A. Sharpe
R. A. Sharpe
Affiliation:
St David's University College, University of Wales
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In the 11th chapter of the second book of Samuel, we read how King David saw Bathsheba in the evening: ‘v.2. And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.’

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Philosophy , Volume 67 , Issue 260 , April 1992 , pp. 155 - 168
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1992

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14 The analogy with art runs deep. A critic may be in the position of being an opinion-maker but he may not see himself as making the status of the work but rather as discovering it. See my ‘Art and Expertise’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society vol. 85, 1984–1985, 119–133Google Scholar

Earlier versions of this paper were read to a staff-student colloquium at Saint David's University College, to a meeting of the Welsh Philosophical Society and to a group at the Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik. I am grateful for comments, particularly from David Cockburn and Carolyn Wilde who read the piece.