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

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Schlegel's Argument for Inner Spiritual Contemplation

Schlegel claims unlike Kant that beauty is inherently connected to the proposiveness of things. He says we get to it through either introspection or what's probably much easier because I don't think Schlegel is a introspective mystic, he's a follower of shelling. We are using these symbolic external things we're using art to get to know ourselves and get to know the infinite through that. The physical and the mental as you said are supposed to be sublated but in fact they were primordial unified in the first place.

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