Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Good and Evil', 'Representation in Music' and 'The Birth of Tragedy'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

7848	Philosophy begins in the horror and absurdity of existence [Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson]

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

12167

Reference without predication is the characteristic of expression [Scruton]

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

12166

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

12168

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

22489

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