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

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Sensuous Man

Truth can't be received from the outside. It is something that the intellectual faculty produces spontaneously in its freedom. And it is just this spontaneity, this freedom that we do not find in the sensuous man. That's not what we're going for. So I think he's thinking of a hypothetical man devoid of all rationality and conceptualization. This doesn't really exist. There never really was a full complete state of nature where we are. We want to go back to our common ancestor which impansies or further.

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