18 ideas
18543 | Do aesthetic reasons count as reasons, if they are rejectable without contradiction? [Scruton] |
18542 | Defining truth presupposes that there can be a true definition [Scruton] |
18546 | The pleasure taken in beauty also aims at understanding and valuing [Scruton] |
18550 | Art gives us imaginary worlds which we can view impartially [Scruton] |
18544 | Maybe 'beauty' is too loaded, and we should talk of fittingness or harmony [Scruton] |
18553 | Beauty shows us what we should want in order to achieve human fulfilment [Scruton] |
18556 | Beauty is rationally founded, inviting meaning, comparison and self-reflection [Scruton] |
18548 | Natural beauty reassures us that the world is where we belong [Scruton] |
18551 | Croce says art makes inarticulate intuitions conscious; rival views say the audience is the main concern [Scruton] |
18541 | Beauty (unlike truth and goodness) is questionable as an ultimate value [Scruton] |
22971 | In moving from capitalism to communism a revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is needed [Marx] |
22000 | From each according to his ability, to each according to his need [Marx] |
22969 | People who only have their labour power are the slaves of those permitting them to work [Marx] |
22970 | Freedom is making the state subordinate to its society [Marx] |
22972 | Bourgeois 'freedom of conscience' just tolerates all sorts of religious intolerance [Marx] |
18554 | Prostitution is wrong because it hardens the soul, since soul and body are one [Scruton] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |