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You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who had one point

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

Our question for episode 321 is something like, what is art?

We had a selection of August of Ville Helm with Schlagels, three of art,

been between 1798 and 1803.

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This is Mark Linson-Mire, plucking out to the eyes of genius and medicine Wisconsin.

This is Seth Paskin, perfectly blending the real and the ideal in Austin, Texas.

This is Wes Alman trying to get away from myself canceling one-sidedness from Cambridge Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey, uniting my sensuality and spirituality in an autonomous and unlimited

capacity in medicine Wisconsin. Last time we talked about the younger brother, Friedrich Schlagel,

and it was kind of touchy-feely and it was a little hard to figure out what concretely he was

recommending in a lot of cases. So we have his older brother August Schlagel. This is more of a

textbook. This is basically a secondary work about Kant on art, but highlighting very in an easy

to understand manner the differences between Kant's theory and the romantic theory he's proposing.

Is it easy to understand? This was a difficult one for me to figure out.

Mark just excels at this. He's just, this is his old hat. It was so easy for him to understand

that he wanted to add 48 pages of showing. This is just kindergarten stuff. I need to get some

real philosophy. Stop this textbook crap. This was just happened to be a week, a couple of weeks

because we ended up putting it off. So I had two different trips during this time, both of which

involved a good amount of time with me just sitting around and reading philosophy if I wanted to.

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