13 ideas
22076 | Being is only perceptible to itself as becoming [Schelling] |
5044 | Reality must be made of basic unities, which will be animated, substantial points [Leibniz] |
22074 | We must show that the whole of nature, because it is effective, is grounded in freedom [Schelling] |
5045 | No machine or mere organised matter could have a unified self [Leibniz] |
22075 | Only idealism has given us the genuine concept of freedom [Schelling] |
5046 | The soul does know bodies, although they do not influence one another [Leibniz] |
22687 | Maybe literary assessment is evaluating the artist as a suitable friend [Gaut] |
22686 | Formalists say aesthetics concerns types of beauty, or unity, complexity and intensity [Gaut] |
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] |
22685 | Good art does not necessarily improve people (any more than good advice does) [Gaut] |
5043 | To regard animals as mere machines may be possible, but seems improbable [Leibniz] |