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PREMIUM-Ep. 287: Roger Scruton on Beauty (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Pleasure and Beauty Is Not Just Pleasure in the Immediate Sense of Sensory Experience

Pleasure and beauty is not ever just pleasure in the immediate sense of sensory experience, like the warm bath. That's what it comes through. But that's not the particular object that you're focused on. The way we get to that object is through thought. It's completely unclear to me why you exclude the mental activity of processing other senses. Unless you just say, we'll look the dynamic range of our our sense of touch or our sense of smell, is less sensitive, less available for mental contemplation. Or maybe we've simply leveraged less articulation in language. Have a language of smell in the sense that we are youdot have a grammar of smell and an articulation

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