9 ideas
| 291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
| 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] |
| 293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
| 19589 | The whole point of a monarch is that we accept them as a higher-born, ideal person [Novalis] |