The partially examined life philosophy podcast Part 1 episodes are designed to be self-contained,

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But for hardcore philosophy fans, we record for another hour or so to release behind

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What you're about to hear is a preview of one of these Part 2 episodes, and hope you

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You're listening to the partially examined life episode 292.

Part 2, finishing up Suzanne Lange's philosophy in a new key on art and the point of her project.

Maybe a good place to start is to make explicit this contrast between her and Scrutin, an

Edward Hanslick who in the mid 19th century wrote this on the musically beautiful.

So he's the guy that's they both take on as representative of the view that music is

pure.

I think this was in even Kant, right?

Kant was like, if you add lyrics and things, you're sort of defeating the purpose, you're

junking it up with other, but Hanslick was, so this is 60 years or whatever later than

Kant wrote this famous essay on that it is not expressive.

Music is autonomous.

It is its own thing.

And so Lange seems to want to kind of split the difference to say, well, he was right,

about a lot of stuff that it's way of symbolizing things is quite different than the way other

things symbolize things.

And so actually she's in this book in philosophy in a new key at least, this is quite a bit

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