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

point said I'm doing philosophy for living, but then thought better of it. Our question for

episode 107 is something like what is the sublime and we'll be discussing the philosophical inquiry

into the origins of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful from 1756, part to one, two, and the

second edition introductory essay on taste. You can join the discussion, get the text,

lots more information at partiallyexaminedlife.com. This is Mark Linsmer, a rock in it from medicine

Wisconsin. This is Seth Paskin, delightfully in pain in Austin, Texas. This is Dylan Casey,

sublimely in the Lysl and Wisconsin. This is Amir Zaki experiencing a momentary state of

tranquility shadowed with horror and huntington beach golf. I thought that's what I said. I thought

that's that's what rock it it means. I didn't do it in your voice though. I just think I should

do the entire podcast in this this time. The sublime is rock and roll. You're just too good at that, Mark.

I'm really impressed and terrified. Now before we start Amir, why don't you tell us a little

about yourself? Okay, so I'm professor at the University of California Riverside and I'm currently

the chair of the art department. I'm your Zaki, the excellent photographer who I had asked to be on

an episode a long time ago and you say, oh, well, are you going to have one on photography? Let

me do that one. Like that's going to happen anytime in the next ever universe. And then when it

came up that we were doing this episode, then he emailed us out of the blue, hey, can I be on your

episode? That would be a good one. I want to do that one. Saying how he was already how it was like

the back of his hand. No, yeah, that's right. More or less. So Amir, do you know any of the ground rules?

Can you name them? Yes, do it. Number one, don't assume the audience knows anything about philosophy

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