Ep. 40: Truth and Beauty
Young Heretics
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Aristotle's Serenity About Art
i'm going to read a portion here from aristotle's politics, the edition i am using. It is in polytes, book eight, chapter three. And so it is evident that certain things should be learned, and there should be education with a view to the leisure that is spent in pastime as well. So this is aristotle kind of balancing plato's emphasis on the teaching function of art with the reality that pleasure is a good. This is especially, i think, the case for music. For they arrange to have it in what they suppose to be the pastime of free persons. Hence, homer wrote thus, but him alone, it is needful to invite to
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