7 ideas
5437 | The claim of hermeneutics to give knowledge through understanding is challenged by positivism [Mautner on Dilthey] |
5436 | Natural science seeks explanation; human sciences seek understanding [Dilthey, by Mautner] |
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] |
22692 | A work can be morally and artistically excellent, despite rejecting moral truth [John,E] |
3031 | The greatest good is not the achievement of desire, but to desire what is proper [Menedemus, by Diog. Laertius] |