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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Artistic Value and Opportunistic Moralism' and 'Letters to Oldenburg'

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

22692

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

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]

22693

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

22694

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

22695

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

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism

4867	Whether nature is beautiful or orderly is entirely in relation to human imagination [Spinoza]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 3. Divine Perfections

4866	God is a being with infinite attributes, each of them infinite or perfect [Spinoza]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / e. Miracles

4868	Trying to prove God's existence through miracles is proving the obscure by the more obscure [Spinoza]