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All the ideas for 'talk', 'Recent Aesthetics in England and America' and 'Anarchical Fallacies: on the Declaration of Rights'

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5 ideas

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 1. Aesthetics

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Aesthetics has risen and fallen with Romanticism [Scruton]

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

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Aesthetic experience informs the world with the values of the observer [Scruton]

23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism

3031	The greatest good is not the achievement of desire, but to desire what is proper [Menedemus, by Diog. Laertius]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 3. Natural Values / c. Natural rights

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Natural rights are nonsense, and unspecified natural rights is nonsense on stilts [Bentham]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights

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Only laws can produce real rights; rights from 'law of nature' are imaginary [Bentham]