9 ideas
22312 | Facts can be both positive and negative [Wittgenstein, by Potter] |
16641 | Whiteness does not exist, but by it something can exist-as-white [Aquinas] |
22170 | Senses grasp external properties, but the understanding grasps the essential natures of things [Aquinas] |
22169 | Initial universal truths are present within us as potential, to be drawn out by reason [Aquinas] |
22168 | Minds take in a likeness of things, which activates an awaiting potential [Aquinas] |
22692 | A work can be morally and artistically excellent, despite rejecting moral truth [John,E] |
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] |