10 ideas
6558 | A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds [Emerson] |
16669 | Everything that exists is either a being, or some mode of a being [Malebranche] |
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] |
22684 | Good ethics counts towards aesthetic merit, and bad ethics counts against it [Gaut] |
22685 | Good art does not necessarily improve people (any more than good advice does) [Gaut] |
22689 | If we don't respond ethically in the way a work prescribes, that is an aesthetic failure [Gaut] |
22690 | 'Moralism' says all aesthetic merits are moral merits [Gaut] |
12726 | In a true cause we see a necessary connection [Malebranche] |
2594 | A true cause must involve a necessary connection between cause and effect [Malebranche] |