9 ideas
| 18284 | Particulars can be verified or falsified, but general statements can only be falsified (conclusively) [Popper] |
| 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] |
| 21995 | Must production determine superstructure, or could it be the other way round? [Singer on Marx] |
| 20577 | Even decently paid workers still have their produce bought with money stolen from them [Marx] |