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All the ideas for 'Art', 'Fath and Love, or the King and Queen' and 'Contrib to Critique of Hegel's Phil of Right'

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22 ideas

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude
23928 Good art produces exaltation and detachment [Bell,C]
21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 4. Beauty
23922 The word 'beauty' leads to confusion, because it denotes distinct emotions [Bell,C]
21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 5. Natural Beauty
23921 Our feeling for natural beauty is different from the aesthetic emotion of art [Bell,C]
23929 We only see landscapes as artistic if we ignore their instrumental value [Bell,C]
21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 6. The Sublime
23923 Visual form can create a sublime mental state [Bell,C]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 1. Defining Art
23932 Art is the expression of an emotion for ultimate reality [Bell,C]
23927 Aestheticism invites artist to create beauty, but with no indication of how to do it [Bell,C]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 2. Art as Form
8115 Only artists can discern significant form; other people must look to art to find it [Bell,C, by Gardner]
23924 Maybe significant form gives us a feeling for ultimate reality [Bell,C]
23931 Significant form is the essence of art, which I believe expresses an emotion about reality [Bell,C]
20434 'Form' is visual relations, and it is 'significant' if it moves us aesthetically; art needs both [Bell,C, by Feagin]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 4. Art as Expression
23934 The only expression art could have is the emotion resulting from pure form [Bell,C]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 2. Copies of Art
23925 Mere copies of pictures are not significant - unless the copies are very exact [Bell,C]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 4. Emotion in Art
23926 Art is distinguished by its aesthetic emotion, which produces appropriate form [Bell,C]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 6. Value of Art
23933 Aesthetic contemplation is the best and most intense mental state [Bell,C]
23935 Aesthetic experience is an exaltation which increases the possibilities of life [Bell,C]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
22691 Only artistic qualities matter in art, because they also have the highest moral value [Bell,C]
24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 2. Leaders / b. Monarchy
19589 The whole point of a monarch is that we accept them as a higher-born, ideal person [Novalis]
24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 4. Changing the State / c. Revolution
21991 The middle class gain freedom through property, but workers can only free all of humanity [Marx, by Singer]
21990 Theory is as much a part of a revolution as material force is [Marx]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / a. Religious Belief
7128 Religion is the opium of the people, and real happiness requires its abolition [Marx]
23930 Religion sees infinite value in some things, and irrelevance in the rest [Bell,C]