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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Artistic Value and Opportunistic Moralism' and 'Predest.,God's foreknowledge and contingents'

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6 ideas

7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism
Our words and concepts don't always correspond to what is out there [William of Ockham]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
A work can be morally and artistically excellent, despite rejecting moral truth [John,E]
Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]
The works we value most are in sympathy with our own moral views [John,E]
We should understand what is morally important in a story, without having to endorse it [John,E]
We value morality in art because that is what we care about - but it is a contingent fact [John,E]