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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Aesthetica' and 'Seven Types of Atheism'

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9 ideas

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 1. Aesthetics

8063	Baumgarten founded aesthetics in 1750 [Baumgarten, by Tolstoy]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 2. Art as Form

8118	Beauty is an order between parts, and in relation to the whole [Baumgarten, by Tolstoy]

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

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good

8117	Perfection comes through the senses (Beauty), through reason (Truth), and through moral will (Good) [Baumgarten, by Tolstoy]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

23061

Free atheism should start by questioning its faith in humanity [Gray]

29. Religion / A. Polytheistic Religion / 4. Dualist Religion

23057

Gnosticism has a supreme creator God, giving way to a possibly hostile Demiurge [Gray]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 2. Judaism

23056

Judaism only became monotheistic around 550 BCE [Gray]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / a. Christianity

23055

Christians introduced the idea that a religion needs a creed [Gray]

29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism

23058

Buddhism has no divinity or souls, and the aim is to lose the illusion of a self [Gray]