Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Pindar, Berys Gaut and Richard Montague

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8 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 2. Descriptions / b. Definite descriptions

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'The' is a quantifier, like 'every' and 'a', and does not result in denotation [Montague]

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude

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Maybe literary assessment is evaluating the artist as a suitable friend [Gaut]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 2. Art as Form

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Formalists say aesthetics concerns types of beauty, or unity, complexity and intensity [Gaut]

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

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'Moralism' says all aesthetic merits are moral merits [Gaut]

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Good ethics counts towards aesthetic merit, and bad ethics counts against it [Gaut]

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If we don't respond ethically in the way a work prescribes, that is an aesthetic failure [Gaut]

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Good art does not necessarily improve people (any more than good advice does) [Gaut]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

6017	Nomos is king [Pindar]