14 ideas
411 | If we succeed in speaking the truth, we cannot know we have done it [Xenophanes] |
412 | If God had not created honey, men would say figs are sweeter [Xenophanes] |
20921 | How can we state relativism of sweet and sour, if they have no determinate nature? [Theophrastus] |
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] |
5990 | Theophrastus doubted whether nature could be explained teleologically [Theophrastus, by Gottschalk] |
1640 | The basic Eleatic belief was that all things are one [Xenophanes, by Plato] |
3055 | Xenophanes said the essence of God was spherical and utterly inhuman [Xenophanes, by Diog. Laertius] |
407 | Mortals believe gods are born, and have voices and clothes just like mortals [Xenophanes] |
408 | Ethiopian gods have black hair, and Thracian gods have red hair [Xenophanes] |