Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'The Sublime and the Good' and 'Ancient Philosophy: very short introduction'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

10 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / b. Pre-Socratic philosophy

12036

Xenophanes began the concern with knowledge [Annas]

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / c. Classical philosophy

12046

Plato was the first philosopher who was concerned to systematize his ideas [Annas]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 1. Defining Art

22709

We should first decide what are the great works of art, with aesthetic theory following from that [Murdoch]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 6. Value of Art

22715

Great art proves the absurdity of art for art's sake [Murdoch]

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

22714

Because art is love, it improves us morally [Murdoch]

22712

Art and morals are essentially the same, and are both identical with love [Murdoch]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

12037

Euripides's Medea is a key case of reason versus the passions [Annas]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

7667	There are two sides to men - the pleasantly social, and the violent and creative [Diderot, by Berlin]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love

22713

Love is realising something other than oneself is real [Murdoch]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / a. Nature of virtue

12040

Virtue is a kind of understanding of moral value [Annas]