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Ep. 321: August Schlegel on Beauty (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Schlegel's Third Critique of Kant

Schlegel: Kant's project is to unify or identify the way in which we can access the unbounded through the bounded. He says that if you define beautiful the way that Kant does, then you're limiting yourself to the finite and blocking off access. But at the end of the section on the sublime, he will say in a way, he wants to say that the sublime isn't just about boundlessness and formlessness.

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