8 ideas
| 22687 | Maybe literary assessment is evaluating the artist as a suitable friend [Gaut] |
| 22686 | Formalists say aesthetics concerns types of beauty, or unity, complexity and intensity [Gaut] |
| 22690 | 'Moralism' says all aesthetic merits are moral merits [Gaut] |
| 22684 | Good ethics counts towards aesthetic merit, and bad ethics counts against it [Gaut] |
| 22689 | If we don't respond ethically in the way a work prescribes, that is an aesthetic failure [Gaut] |
| 22685 | Good art does not necessarily improve people (any more than good advice does) [Gaut] |
| 8991 | Foucault can't accept that power is sometimes decent and benign [Foucault, by Scruton] |
| 1497 | For Anaximenes nature is air, which takes different forms by rarefaction and condensation [Anaximenes, by Simplicius] |