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

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]
	Full Idea: In singing and playing the lyre, a boy will be likely to reveal not only courage and moderation, but also justice.
	From: Damon (fragments/reports [c.460 BCE], B4), quoted by (who?) - where?

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good

3032	I can form no notion of what the good is [Amphis]
	Full Idea: What the good is I no more can form a notion of, than of the good of Plato.
	From: Amphis (comedies (frags) [c.350 BCE]), quoted by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 03.1.22
	A reaction: It was evidently a running joke in the ancient world that no one could define Plato's Form of the Good. He was said to have written a book on it, now lost.

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof

1451	Design is seen in the way ideas match the world, in the mechanisms of evolution, and in values [Tennant,FR, by PG]
	Full Idea: There is evidence for design in the correspondence of pure ideas to the world, in the origin and mechanism of evolution, and in the existence of moral values and beauty.
	From: report of F.R. Tennant (Philosophical Theology [1930], II.IV) by PG - Db (ideas)