Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Good and Evil', 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' and 'Representation in Music'

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5 ideas

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

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Reference without predication is the characteristic of expression [Scruton]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 5. Art as Language

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If music refers to love, it contains no predication, so it is expression, not language [Scruton]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / a. Music

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Music is not representational, since thoughts about a subject are never essential to it [Scruton]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good

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'Good' is an attributive adjective like 'large', not predicative like 'red' [Geach, by Foot]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 12. Feminism

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If women share rights with men, they will exhibit similar virtues [Wollstonecraft]