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All the ideas for 'Leibniz: Guide for the Perplexed', 'works' and 'Artistic Value and Opportunistic Moralism'

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6 ideas

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / d. Substance defined

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Substance needs independence, unity, and stability (for individuation); also it is a subject, for predicates [Perkins]

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

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

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

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

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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 / 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]