Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Ages of the World', 'The Ethical Criticism of Art' and 'Actions'

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8 ideas

20. Action / A. Definition of Action / 5. Action as Trying
Bodily movements are not actions, which are really the tryings within bodily movement [Hornsby, by Stout,R]
21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude
Maybe literary assessment is evaluating the artist as a suitable friend [Gaut]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 2. Art as Form
Formalists say aesthetics concerns types of beauty, or unity, complexity and intensity [Gaut]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
'Moralism' says all aesthetic merits are moral merits [Gaut]
Good ethics counts towards aesthetic merit, and bad ethics counts against it [Gaut]
If we don't respond ethically in the way a work prescribes, that is an aesthetic failure [Gaut]
Good art does not necessarily improve people (any more than good advice does) [Gaut]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character
We don't choose our characters, yet we still claim credit for the actions our characters perform [Schelling]