Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Opus Maius (major works)' and 'The Ethical Criticism of Art'

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21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude

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Maybe literary assessment is evaluating the artist as a suitable friend [Gaut]

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

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Formalists say aesthetics concerns types of beauty, or unity, complexity and intensity [Gaut]

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

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'Moralism' says all aesthetic merits are moral merits [Gaut]

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

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Good ethics counts towards aesthetic merit, and bad ethics counts against it [Gaut]

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If we don't respond ethically in the way a work prescribes, that is an aesthetic failure [Gaut]

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Good art does not necessarily improve people (any more than good advice does) [Gaut]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / d. Knowing essences

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No one even knows the nature and properties of a fly - why it has that colour, or so many feet [Bacon,R]