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Smell with Benjamin Young

Overthink

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Smells Are Too Powerful and They Perceive Early

For Kant, beauty really has to do with disinterested appreciation of a work of art or something beautiful. We can never reach that point with smells because they are just too powerful and penetrate earlier. And so it means that we can only experience smells as interested parties - which is not the kind of distance necessary for aesthetic judgment.

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