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All the ideas for 'Of Liberty and Necessity', 'Protrepticus (frags)' and 'The Nature of Musical Expression'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / d. Philosophy as puzzles

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Inquiry is the cause of philosophy [Aristotle]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 5. Contingency

6215	'Contingent' means that the cause is unperceived, not that there is no cause [Hobbes]

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

12165

Romantics say music expresses ideas, or the Will, or intuitions, or feelings [Scruton]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 4. Emotion in Art

12164

Expressing melancholy is a good thing, but arousing it is a bad thing [Scruton]