10 ideas
| 19087 | The meaning or purport of a symbol is all the rational conduct it would lead to [Peirce] |
| 22687 | Maybe literary assessment is evaluating the artist as a suitable friend [Gaut] |
| 299 | What is fine is always difficult [Plato] |
| 22686 | Formalists say aesthetics concerns types of beauty, or unity, complexity and intensity [Gaut] |
| 22690 | 'Moralism' says all aesthetic merits are moral merits [Gaut] |
| 297 | What is fine is the parent of goodness [Plato] |
| 22684 | Good ethics counts towards aesthetic merit, and bad ethics counts against it [Gaut] |
| 22689 | If we don't respond ethically in the way a work prescribes, that is an aesthetic failure [Gaut] |
| 22685 | Good art does not necessarily improve people (any more than good advice does) [Gaut] |
| 298 | While sex is very pleasant, it should be in secret, as it looks contemptible [Plato] |