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All the ideas for 'Leibniz', 'The Ethical Criticism of Art' and 'People and Their Bodies'

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8 ideas

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 5. Temporal Parts
How can point-duration slices of people have beliefs or desires? [Thomson]
9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects
The Identity of Indiscernibles is really the same as the verification principle [Jolley]
21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude
Maybe literary assessment is evaluating the artist as a suitable friend [Gaut]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 2. Art as Form
Formalists say aesthetics concerns types of beauty, or unity, complexity and intensity [Gaut]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
Good ethics counts towards aesthetic merit, and bad ethics counts against it [Gaut]
Good art does not necessarily improve people (any more than good advice does) [Gaut]
If we don't respond ethically in the way a work prescribes, that is an aesthetic failure [Gaut]
'Moralism' says all aesthetic merits are moral merits [Gaut]