15 ideas
| 15586 | When philosophy makes itself intelligible, it commits suicide [Heidegger] |
| 22701 | Jokes can sometimes be funny because they are offensive [Jacobson,D] |
| 22687 | Maybe literary assessment is evaluating the artist as a suitable friend [Gaut] |
| 22703 | We don't often respond to events in art as if they were real events [Jacobson,D] |
| 22686 | Formalists say aesthetics concerns types of beauty, or unity, complexity and intensity [Gaut] |
| 22702 | Audiences can be too moral [Jacobson,D] |
| 22690 | 'Moralism' says all aesthetic merits are moral merits [Gaut] |
| 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] |
| 22696 | 'Autonomism' says the morality is irrelevant to the aesthetics [Jacobson,D] |
| 22697 | Moral defects of art can be among its aesthetic virtues [Jacobson,D] |
| 22700 | Immoral art encourages immoral emotions [Jacobson,D] |
| 22699 | Moderate moralism says moral qualities can sometimes also be aesthetic qualities [Jacobson,D] |
| 22698 | We can judge art ethically, or rate its ethical influence, or assess its quality via its ethics [Jacobson,D] |
| 22685 | Good art does not necessarily improve people (any more than good advice does) [Gaut] |