
Ep. 319: Schiller on Experiencing Beauty (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Two Drives of Beauty and Idea
I feel there's been a cheat here that the two drives were supposed to be coming from two distinct realms of experience. And now we've got what the heavenly transcendent is just this melting beauty, this liquefying beauty, something that tells us, chill out. I want to distinguish the attenuating and the activating are not lined up with form and impulse. There's a four way grid here. So the attenuating can act on either he'll say this explicitly. The attenuating can acts on either the formal or the material while the activating can act on both.
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