Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'General Draft', 'The Blue and Brown Notebooks' and 'Croce and Collingwood'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

22026

Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 6. Idealisation

19591

Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 3. Reference of 'I'

22419

'I' is a subject in 'I am in pain' and an object in 'I am bleeding' [Wittgenstein, by McGinn]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation

6318	The doctrine of indeterminacy of translation seems implied by the later Wittgenstein [Wittgenstein, by Quine]

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

20416

By 1790 aestheticians were mainly trying to explain individual artistic genius [Kemp]

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

20417

Expression can be either necessary for art, or sufficient for art (or even both) [Kemp]

20419

We don't already know what to express, and then seek means of expressing it [Kemp]

20418

The horror expressed in some works of art could equallly be expressed by other means [Kemp]