
Ep. 321: August Schlegel on Beauty (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Aesthetic Experience
The aesthetic is a uniquely human experience and we are like We've seen numerous times over and over again throughout the years man is the mixture of the finite and the infinite. He wants to fight con on this idea that in a way genius is just instinctual so that animals what they do Could just be considered aesthetic, right? I think Saf you had said that we interpret artists Purposeive because people because artists are people with intentions but Schlegel's gonna want to say no Those two things actually have to be fused at a lower level so that an inherent sense of taste Has to be integrated into the moment of inspiration. Our artistic sensibility is a Product of influence from previous artists. So in
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