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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'talk' and 'Recent Aesthetics in England and America'

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6 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being

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Not-Being obviously doesn't exist, and the five modes of Being are all impossible [Gorgias, by Diog. Laertius]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

5864	Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias]

9866	Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato]

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

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Aesthetics has risen and fallen with Romanticism [Scruton]

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

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Aesthetic experience informs the world with the values of the observer [Scruton]

24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 5. Culture

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Culture is the struggle to agree what is normal [Gibson,A]