
Ep. 320: Friedrich Schlegel on Romanticism (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Poetics of Aristotle
Dylan, you mentioned that as a contrast of a sort of scientific view of it, I think poetics, he says specifically is the thing he's against. He wants to subsume science within this realm of idealism and posy, but in terms of like, let's make a formula for what is the good. The reference to posy is really trying to sit there with the active nature of whether it be art or nature, the source. It's one of the ways in which infinity gets pulled in, right? Because you'll never stop becoming in his point of view.
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