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All the ideas for 'Symposium', 'Artistic Value and Opportunistic Moralism' and 'The Rationalists'

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8 ideas

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance

4304	Descartes says there are two substance, Spinoza one, and Leibniz infinitely many [Cottingham]

12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism

4303	The notion of substance lies at the heart of rationalist metaphysics [Cottingham]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

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A work can be morally and artistically excellent, despite rejecting moral truth [John,E]

22693

The works we value most are in sympathy with our own moral views [John,E]

22694

We should understand what is morally important in a story, without having to endorse it [John,E]

22695

We value morality in art because that is what we care about - but it is a contingent fact [John,E]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / h. Fine deeds

5845	Niceratus learnt the whole of Homer by heart, as a guide to goodness [Xenophon]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

4306	For rationalists, it is necessary that effects be deducible from their causes [Cottingham]