9 ideas
20183 | So-called 'though experiments' are just philosophers observing features of the world [Cappelen] |
20182 | The word 'intuitive' often plays not role at all in arguments, and can be removed [Cappelen] |
22687 | Maybe literary assessment is evaluating the artist as a suitable friend [Gaut] |
22686 | Formalists say aesthetics concerns types of beauty, or unity, complexity and intensity [Gaut] |
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] |
1513 | The Egyptians were the first to say the soul is immortal and reincarnated [Herodotus] |