
Ep. 319: Schiller on Experiencing Beauty (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Importance of Beauty in the 21st Century
Hume stresses that beauty is universal. He doesn't get into the sorts of conflicts that we considered when we were talking about, you know, humans on the standard of taste and stuff where, but it seems like we disagree a lot about the beautiful. "I had a lot of notes in this one, but I don't know if I need to go into them," he says. The 27th letter does have its own point. This idea of championing appearance sounds very Nietzschean.
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