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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Nature of Musical Expression' and 'Aesthetics: problems in the philosophy of criticism'

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4 ideas

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 4. Art as Expression

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Romantics say music expresses ideas, or the Will, or intuitions, or feelings [Scruton]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 4. Emotion in Art

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Expressing melancholy is a good thing, but arousing it is a bad thing [Scruton]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 6. Value of Art

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Art leads to mental health, and mental clarity [Beardsley,M, by Carroll,N]

23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism

3031	The greatest good is not the achievement of desire, but to desire what is proper [Menedemus, by Diog. Laertius]