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All the ideas for 'Recent Aesthetics in England and America', 'Intro to 'Communitarianism and Individualism'' and 'Parthood and Identity across Time'

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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 5. Temporal Parts
13267 Temporal parts is a crazy doctrine, because it entails constantly creating stuff ex nihilo [Thomson, by Koslicki]
21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 1. Aesthetics
12156 Aesthetics has risen and fallen with Romanticism [Scruton]
21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude
12158 Aesthetic experience informs the world with the values of the observer [Scruton]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / a. Liberalism basics
22808 Liberalism is minimal government, or individual rights, or equality [Avineri/De-Shalit]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / g. Liberalism critique
22803 Can individualist theories justify an obligation to fight in a war? [Avineri/De-Shalit]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / a. Communitarianism
22804 Autonomy is better achieved within a community [Avineri/De-Shalit]
22806 Communitarians avoid oppression for the common good, by means of small mediating communities [Avineri/De-Shalit]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / b. Against communitarianism
22807 If our values are given to us by society then we have no grounds to criticise them [Avineri/De-Shalit]