Ep. 318: Friedrich Schiller on the Civilizing Potential of Art (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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We continue working through letters 1-15 of On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795), helped by Markus Reuter.

We get clearer on what Schiller means by Beauty, and how two contrary drives toward matter and form somehow cancel each other out to combine in a "play drive" that is at the heart of appreciating and creating art.

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by Masterclass.
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0:07.5	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:15.0	Hey, this is the partially examined Life Episode 3,
0:18.2	118 Part 2.
0:19.9	We've been discussing Friedrich Schiller's
0:22.0	on the aesthetic education of man,
0:24.4	where you've given a lot of overview.
0:26.7	And I think we're up to letter 4.
0:29.3	Out of 15 here. Pick up the pace.
0:31.7	Yeah, I think the aesthetic part doesn't start
0:35.0	until towards the end, and it's complicated.
0:37.7	So...
0:38.3	Some of it, even toward the end of our reading,
0:40.5	he is laying out in a more systematic manner
0:44.3	what right here in the fourth letter he is pointing at,
0:48.1	which is this is going to revolve around
0:50.3	some sort of analysis of human nature,
0:52.3	that there is an empirical part of us,
0:55.8	and there is some sort of non-imperial part of us,
0:59.4	which is a weird thing to talk about.
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