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You're listening to the Partial Exam in Life podcast by some guys where at one point

said I'm doing philosophy for living but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 319 is something like what is artistic appreciation

and we read the rest of Friedrich Schiller's on the aesthetic education of man

in 1795. More information placed here at Partial Exam in Life.com.

This is Mark Linson-Meyer, ordering a filled infinity with a sight of garlic fries in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Wes Allen looking forward to living in the artocracy in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey passing through zero in Madison, Wisconsin.

And Seth's birthday is today and his present to himself was to not show up.

So thanks Dylan for catching up. You were not on last time but yet did you feel comfortable

jumping in halfway through? Honestly I think I got the best part.

Sure, sure. Because I reading through the last two 14 and 15 and then listening to the

episode there's a lot of good stuff in this last half.

Yes, here we actually get his aesthetic theory. I mean really his point, the question really

is the same as last time is how can art make us better people, how can artistic education

therefore transform us as human beings and transform government.

But the first half was a little heavier on the straight political philosophy sort of question

and here we're getting it's still pretty abstract but it's a far as we have an actual

aesthetic theory and Wes you were totally right. He does line up in so far as he's giving

an aesthetic theory pretty much exactly where Kant's theory was in terms of this disinterested

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