
Ep. 321: August Schlegel on Beauty (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Origins of Romanticism
The innate disposition through which nature gives the rule to art according to Kant. What makes someone a genius is their complete distinctiveness and so we are you know there are many roots to God or if you want to say it that way. Every brilliant artist is quote Friedrich Schlegel is a creator of his own religion. He's gonna get at this tension that you're pointing to because he's gonna suggest that Matteredness is a bad thing when it's expressive of our Idios and kratik personal character traits in other words. There's a bad form of style and often what seems like originality is what he? Associates with that, but then he had kind of has to back
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