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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Artistic Value and Opportunistic Moralism' and 'Anarchical Fallacies: on the Declaration of Rights'

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21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

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A work can be morally and artistically excellent, despite rejecting moral truth [John,E]

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The works we value most are in sympathy with our own moral views [John,E]

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We should understand what is morally important in a story, without having to endorse it [John,E]

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We value morality in art because that is what we care about - but it is a contingent fact [John,E]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 3. Natural Values / c. Natural rights

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Natural rights are nonsense, and unspecified natural rights is nonsense on stilts [Bentham]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights

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Only laws can produce real rights; rights from 'law of nature' are imaginary [Bentham]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / c. Ultimate substances

1497	For Anaximenes nature is air, which takes different forms by rarefaction and condensation [Anaximenes, by Simplicius]