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All the ideas for 'Hobbes', 'What is Art?' and 'On the Genealogy of Ethics'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 2. Ancient Thought
7500 Early Greeks cared about city and companions; later Greeks concentrated on the self [Foucault]
13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism
7413 Without confidence in our beliefs, how should we actually live? [Tuck]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 4. Art as Expression
8122 True works of art transmit completely new feelings [Tolstoy]
8121 Art is when one man uses external signs to hand on his feelings to another man [Tolstoy]
8124 The highest feelings of mankind can only be transmitted by art [Tolstoy]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 4. Emotion in Art
8123 The purpose of art is to help mankind to evolve better, more socially beneficial feelings [Tolstoy]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
22710 People estimate art according to their moral values [Tolstoy]
8125 The upper classes put beauty first, and thus freed themselves from morality [Tolstoy]
8064 We separate the concept of beauty from goodness, unlike the ancients [Tolstoy]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / h. Fine deeds
7501 Why couldn't a person's life become a work of art? [Foucault]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / b. Types of pleasure
7498 Greeks and early Christians were much more concerned about food than about sex [Foucault]