Ep. 319: Schiller on Experiencing Beauty (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
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🗓️ 19 June 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Starting with letter 20 in On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795), we tell more of the story of how art is supposed to get us from sensation to thinking.
Aesthetic perception ends up being essential to any conceptualization (thinking) whatsoever!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the partially examined life episode 319. |
| 0:10.8 | We are concluding our treatment of Friedrich Schiller's on the aesthetic education of man |
| 0:16.0 | we had gotten up to letter 20 out of 28 here. |
| 0:20.2 | We were talking about freedom. |
| 0:22.2 | We had mentioned that footnote which suggested that he was talking about psychological freedom. |
| 0:28.0 | He's talking about free will too but he's emphasizing for the purposes of the aesthetic freedom |
| 0:32.4 | that's the psychological freedom. |
| 0:34.4 | He seems to be harping more on that point, I think, in the 20th letter. |
| 0:41.8 | We begin to cite with the idea that freedom is an effect of nature, not of man. |
| 0:46.1 | This is not the typical conception of free will as flowing from the unconditional, from the absolute |
| 0:53.1 | and from our own rational nature and so far as a protects of that. |
| 0:57.2 | Some nominal transcendent thing inserting itself into the empirical realm. |
| 1:02.3 | And just say soul, just say soul, that's the way. |
| 1:05.7 | Well, no, I mean, I didn't even think of that. |
| 1:07.3 | I would have said that if I thought of it. |
| 1:08.7 | Luckily, it's an effect of nature. |
| 1:10.1 | There are natural forces that shape us as empirical beings that influence our psychology |
| 1:16.9 | in the direction of freedom with the aesthetic ultimately right. |
| 1:20.6 | We'll turn out to them be the mediator. |
| 1:22.6 | Right. The freedom can be promoted and hampered by natural means. |
| 1:26.6 | It first arises only when man is complete and both his fundamental impulses have developed. |
| 1:31.6 | Must therefore be lacking so long as he is incomplete. |
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