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Hey, you're listening to partially examine life episode 207 part two on

Johann got freed herders

We're talking about the causes of sunken taste among different peoples in who it once blossomed

And we will I'm sure be moving pretty soon to on the influence of the

Belletzras on the higher sciences

And then there's a couple other things. Yeah, I think we can move pretty quickly through this

Yeah, I think we actually talked through a lot of this

But I just there are some specific things in here that I think are really worthwhile reading

But yeah, so this seems like a good transition to part two of the essay

The causes of sunken taste among the different people once blossomed to give some historical

Examples that I think you can hit pretty quickly and then the companion essay that was written 60 years later on the

Belletzras is really an outline of an aesthetic program

It kind of starts exactly where this essay stops

An aesthetic program for his own society or you know recommended for any society

What would be good artistic training training in the humanities to make somebody a good citizen to get all the virtues that the art should bring you

This will be his positive account of what grounds good taste in the society and you can see from right from the start

He's talking about ancient Greece and the fact that for Homer the heroic exploits of the Greeks at the gates of Troy

Where an object of national concern this idea of something being a an object of vital concern to a society is something that we're going to see over and over again in this section

And there's a lot that's really interesting here about that sort of grounding

So he says similarly in part two with Greek drama the stage was a vital concern of a public such as Athens was

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