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Ep. 319: Schiller on Experiencing Beauty (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Perfect Balance Between Melting and Strengthening Beauty

Kant says there must be some absolute beauty that's the perfect balance between the melting and the strengthening. The first service she renders to the natural man, the second to the artificial man. But since in either case, she does not control her material quite freely, but depends on what either formless nature, capital N or unnatural art offers to her. She will bear traces of her origin and become lost at one point more in material life, at another point more in sheer abstract form.

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