Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Herodotus, Berys Gaut and John Bacon

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11 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes
10467 Individuals consist of 'compresent' tropes [Bacon,John]
10464 A trope is a bit of a property or relation (not an exemplification or a quality) [Bacon,John]
10465 Trope theory is ontologically parsimonious, with possibly only one-category [Bacon,John]
10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds
10466 Maybe possible worlds are just sets of possible tropes [Bacon,John]
21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude
22687 Maybe literary assessment is evaluating the artist as a suitable friend [Gaut]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 2. Art as Form
22686 Formalists say aesthetics concerns types of beauty, or unity, complexity and intensity [Gaut]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
22690 'Moralism' says all aesthetic merits are moral merits [Gaut]
22684 Good ethics counts towards aesthetic merit, and bad ethics counts against it [Gaut]
22689 If we don't respond ethically in the way a work prescribes, that is an aesthetic failure [Gaut]
22685 Good art does not necessarily improve people (any more than good advice does) [Gaut]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / a. Immortality
1513 The Egyptians were the first to say the soul is immortal and reincarnated [Herodotus]