10 ideas
| 12170 | Amusement rests on superiority, or relief, or incongruity [Scruton] |
| 12172 | Objects of amusement do not have to be real [Scruton] |
| 12173 | The central object of amusement is the human [Scruton] |
| 12169 | Since only men laugh, it seems to be an attribute of reason [Scruton] |
| 12174 | Only rational beings are attentive without motive or concern [Scruton] |
| 20416 | By 1790 aestheticians were mainly trying to explain individual artistic genius [Kemp] |
| 20417 | Expression can be either necessary for art, or sufficient for art (or even both) [Kemp] |
| 20418 | The horror expressed in some works of art could equallly be expressed by other means [Kemp] |
| 20419 | We don't already know what to express, and then seek means of expressing it [Kemp] |
| 20441 | An ordinary object can be a work of art, but only if some theory of art supports it [Danto] |