
Ep. 290: Susanne Langer on Our Symbol-Making Nature (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Symbolism and the Mind
The difficulty is, it would be great if the brain were like a big piece of wax, and what passed through the eyes just ended up as a kind of impression on that instead, confusedly, it gets transformed into electrical pulses along wires. Ultimately, i think it kind of pushes us towards a kind of hegalian idea th symbolism is and structure are just out there in the world, and we are structured beings. We get rid of all this thing in itself and primary secondary quality, all that stuff. We just do away with all that. And thers, there's the world,. and it really is structured. And we really are, for various reasons, capable of being in
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