Abstract
are doubtful that objective artistic quality exists. Why should we take any of the evaluative judgments of critics to be literally true or to have normative force? they will ask. My answer has to do with both critical and philosophical practice. First, critics regularly make evaluative judgments such as the following: (i) Francisco Goya's Saturn Devouring his Son is a great painting because it is so viscerally horrifying; (ii) the second movement of Vaughan Williams's London Symphony is a great piece of music because of its quiet tranquili y and deep soulfulness; (iii) Jackson Pollock's One (Number 31) is a failure because it is so curiously static; (iv) James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is an important novel because it masterfully addresses universal problems of adolescence and personal character formation.1
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