Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Stephen Houlgate, Leo Tolstoy and Godfrey Vesey

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9 ideas

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / b. Nature of sense-data
6457 Sensations are mental, but sense-data could be mind-independent [Vesey]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 4. Art as Expression
8124 The highest feelings of mankind can only be transmitted by art [Tolstoy]
8121 Art is when one man uses external signs to hand on his feelings to another man [Tolstoy]
8122 True works of art transmit completely new feelings [Tolstoy]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 4. Emotion in Art
8123 The purpose of art is to help mankind to evolve better, more socially beneficial feelings [Tolstoy]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
22710 People estimate art according to their moral values [Tolstoy]
8064 We separate the concept of beauty from goodness, unlike the ancients [Tolstoy]
8125 The upper classes put beauty first, and thus freed themselves from morality [Tolstoy]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / b. Defining ethics
21788 The moral will is self-determining, but the ethical will is met in society [Houlgate]