62 | What is Aesthetics? Part I. Schiller's Letters on Aesthetic Education
What's Left of Philosophy
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The Importance of Self Abnegation
The idea of like self abnegation, you know, as the way forward in terms of making any meaningful social political transformation is just so wild. I think often when I see something beautiful and whether it's movie music, et cetera, I feel this sense of unity and it's not just random. We can one give reasons for why it's beautiful, but also it isn't simply reasons. It feels good and we know it feels good. But that experience gives insight to a type of truth of what the human character could be capable of.
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