
Ep. 319: Schiller on Experiencing Beauty (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Material Impulse and the Formal Impulse
The material impulse and formal impulse are associated with the aesthetic. The two kind of combine themselves combined with each other, he says. He has so many different synonyms for these that it's confusing. How do we rig this machine that is us to actually want the transcendent stuff? So at the end of page 51, I'm in the penguin. This is middle of the 14th letter. And hence the playful impulse in which both of these impulses work in tandem.
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