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Ep. 318: Friedrich Schiller on the Civilizing Potential of Art (Part One)

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The State Is More Natural Than Not

Schiller: The state is, and we're talking about the nation state. It doesn't sound so nasty, brutish and short, right? He'll say it's consistent with the quote-unquote material purposes of physical man. And then there's probably a Hobbesian element because what it's opposed to is the moral state or the rational state. So I think there's some thoughts here about revolution.

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