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All the ideas for 'A Puzzle Concerning Matter and Form', 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments' and 'The Ethical Criticism of Art'

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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence

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The possible Aristotelian view that forms are real and active principles is clearly wrong [Fine,K, by Pasnau]

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude

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Maybe literary assessment is evaluating the artist as a suitable friend [Gaut]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 2. Art as Form

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Formalists say aesthetics concerns types of beauty, or unity, complexity and intensity [Gaut]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

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'Moralism' says all aesthetic merits are moral merits [Gaut]

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Good ethics counts towards aesthetic merit, and bad ethics counts against it [Gaut]

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If we don't respond ethically in the way a work prescribes, that is an aesthetic failure [Gaut]

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Good art does not necessarily improve people (any more than good advice does) [Gaut]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / i. Moral luck

5126	A carelessly thrown brick is condemned much more if it hits someone [Smith,A, by Harman]