Ep. 318: Friedrich Schiller on the Civilizing Potential of Art (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Plato's Solution to Totalitarianism
In the Republic, Plato says, well, art is very destructive. In other words, their art is very much not bringing them up to a moral level. It's allowing them to see the in the lowest, basest impulses. And so this is supposed to ennoble all of us. But on the one hand, art is ennobling, right, and looking for the perfect version of this song of this painting. I'm painting a picture of a bear. Well, I'm not just painting the bears. I see it. I've been putting off a little quotation, but can we at least outline in so far as we get it this far into the book what the
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