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We've been discussing the first half of Roger Scruton's book Beauty from 2009.

So maybe before we're done with Chapter 1 here, should we hit Kant a little harder these

final sections?

Yeah, so I think before we move on to human beauty, because I think he kind of, with this

first chapter, he setting us up with the tools to solve some other puzzles that follow.

We could just get into a little bit more what he says about Kant and disinterested interest.

One of the qualifications here in his section called Beauty and the Senses is that what we're

focused on aesthetically is not just the sensory.

It might seem that way, right?

Because it seems like exactly what the stasis is all about.

It's about the immediate sensory experience.

This idea is that it's presented through the senses, but it's really to the mind, because

it has something to do with those sensations are ordered.

So whether, for instance, it's music, where it's a matter of the way different tones are

related to each other, or the way the parts of the story are related to each other.

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