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Hey, this is the partially examined life episode 288 Part 2.

We've been concluding our treatment of Roger Struton's book Beauty.

So as we were just talking before starting here, Dylan, you wanted to start us off.

That you had asked a question in Part 1 that I just blew you off.

So ask it again and we'll treat it more seriously this time.

So the question was the tension between the access to beauty that requires a contemplative

act that in fact requires a lot of work and that we have to cultivate and energize towards.

And in fact, we may even be sort of untouched by it unless we really work to engage with

it and then have that experience of that aesthetic experience of beauty.

That to me seems intention with an obvious aspect of or obvious experience of the beautiful

or can be and as Struton refers to it and to me is part of my experience for art that

I don't understand, but I find that it touches me and affects me in ways that I don't completely

get that I can reflect on.

It's just the immediate experience of being attracted to it and being drawn to it.

So there's at least that tension there so that the notion, and I'm left with, well,

for something that doesn't have any aspect of wanting us to walk towards it, why would

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