Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Thrasymachus, Paul J. Cohen and Berys Gaut

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8 ideas

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 10. Constructivism / a. Constructivism
We could accept the integers as primitive, then use sets to construct the rest [Cohen]
21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude
Maybe literary assessment is evaluating the artist as a suitable friend [Gaut]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 2. Art as Form
Formalists say aesthetics concerns types of beauty, or unity, complexity and intensity [Gaut]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
Good ethics counts towards aesthetic merit, and bad ethics counts against it [Gaut]
Good art does not necessarily improve people (any more than good advice does) [Gaut]
If we don't respond ethically in the way a work prescribes, that is an aesthetic failure [Gaut]
'Moralism' says all aesthetic merits are moral merits [Gaut]
28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 3. Deism
Clearly the gods ignore human affairs, or they would have given us justice [Thrasymachus]