Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Rescher,N/Oppenheim,P, Berys Gaut and A.W. Moore

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics
21959 Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts
12887 A whole must have one characteristic, an internal relation, and a structure [Rescher/Oppenheim]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism
21958 Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW]
21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude
22687 Maybe literary assessment is evaluating the artist as a suitable friend [Gaut]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 2. Art as Form
22686 Formalists say aesthetics concerns types of beauty, or unity, complexity and intensity [Gaut]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
22684 Good ethics counts towards aesthetic merit, and bad ethics counts against it [Gaut]
22685 Good art does not necessarily improve people (any more than good advice does) [Gaut]
22689 If we don't respond ethically in the way a work prescribes, that is an aesthetic failure [Gaut]
22690 'Moralism' says all aesthetic merits are moral merits [Gaut]