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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

PREMIUM-Ep. 318: Friedrich Schiller on the Civilizing Potential of Art (Part Three)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Mark and Wes dive deeper into the text of the first several letters of On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795).

Are verbal descriptions of art destined to fall short?  What is it to put yourself forward as a representative of your species? These and many more of Schiller's puzzling proclamations are debated in detail!

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0:14.5

Hey, this is the partially examined life episode 318 part 3 still doing the first part

0:23.0

of Friedrich Schiller's on the aesthetic education of man just here with Wes.

0:26.8

Hey Wes.

0:27.8

Hey Mark.

0:28.8

So we wanted to try a different kind of part 3.

0:31.5

It's been a little hard to schedule with the other guys.

0:34.4

So let's see how this goes and whether you feel like you're getting the full PL experience.

0:39.9

But we're definitely this was a very hard text.

0:42.0

It was pretty lengthy and as much as I enjoyed having our guests on, it rather distracted

0:47.0

from really bearing in and doing the kind of line by line stuff that we should probably

0:52.1

should be doing with this text.

0:53.5

Yeah.

0:54.5

So where did we, I don't know that we could say we left off anywhere because we did kind

0:58.0

of jump around the fence.

0:59.0

Where do we need to dive in more?

1:00.6

Well, I would think that given that we're going to have a whole other episode that's

1:04.8

probably going to overlap a little bit with the end aesthetic stuff that we should focus

1:09.6

on.

1:10.6

I think there's plenty of text that we just didn't hit hard enough in the first 12 or

1:15.5

whatever in the first bunch of letters.

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