Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'later work', 'Sociobiology' and 'The Nature of Musical Expression'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 6. Deconstruction

6840	Derrida came to believe in the undeconstructability of justice, which cannot be relativised [Derrida, by Critchley]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 4. Art as Expression

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Romantics say music expresses ideas, or the Will, or intuitions, or feelings [Scruton]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 4. Emotion in Art

12164

Expressing melancholy is a good thing, but arousing it is a bad thing [Scruton]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / d. Biological ethics

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Genetic behaviours that have enhanced human success include aggression, rape and xenophobia [Wilson,EO, by Okasha]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / c. A unified people

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A community must consist of singular persons, with nothing in common [Derrida, by Glendinning]

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Can there be democratic friendship without us all becoming identical? [Derrida, by Glendinning]