The 22 new ideas included in the latest update (of 5th May), by Theme

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21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude
24172 It is hard to see why we would have developed Kant's 'disinterested' aesthetic attitude [Cochrane on Kant]
21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 4. Beauty
24170 Kant thinks beauty ignores its objects, because it is only 'form' engaging with mind [Cochrane on Kant]
24174 Beauty is fittingness, of details uniting within a pattern [Cochrane]
21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 6. The Sublime
24175 Accounts of sublimity differ over whether we learn something good about ourselves [Cochrane]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 2. Art as Form
24173 We can only understand form if we grasp the whole of which things are parts [Cochrane]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value
24169 We can treat value as a verb; we value something when we positively engage with it [Cochrane]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / d. Subjective value
24176 A person's activities have value when they receive full attention [Cochrane]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value
24168 Aesthetic value appreciates a thing objectively, as a good in its own right [Cochrane]
24171 Morality is not a final value; it concerns how we distribute the things we actually finally value [Cochrane]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love
24167 Love is a mutual reciprocation, not just a desire for something [Cochrane]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / c. Value of pleasure
24165 Pleasure has an intrinsic (independent) value, but that is not a final (for its own sake) value [Cochrane]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / e. Role of pleasure
24166 Pleasure serves to maintain our relationship with its source [Cochrane]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 8. Eternal Recurrence
24154 If you want one experience repeated, you must want all of them [Nietzsche]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / a. Liberalism basics
24158 Liberalism wants separate powers, press freedom, independence and rule of law, and rights [Hutton]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / b. Liberal individualism
24157 Societies should celebrate individual agency, but not mere self-interest [Hutton]
24159 Western civilization depends on a fully free market, private property, and free speech [Hutton]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 11. Capitalism
24155 Capitalism has boom and bust, inequality of power and wealth, and a love of monopoly [Hutton]
24156 Capitalism is the best system for innovation, opportunity and better living standards [Hutton]
27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / a. Energy
24162 Planck introduced the idea that energy can be quantized [Baggott]
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / c. Electrons
24163 Free electrons have clouds of virtual particles, arising from field interaction [Baggott]
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / a. Concept of matter
24161 Thermodynamics sees nature as a continuous flow of energy, as radiation and as substance [Baggott]
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / c. Particle properties
24160 Particle measurements don't seem to reflect their reality [Baggott]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 3. Problem of Evil / a. Problem of Evil
24164 Even non-theists can wonder what, if anything, makes the universe good [Cochrane]