Ep. 318: Friedrich Schiller on the Civilizing Potential of Art (Part Two) - a podcast by Mark Linsenmayer

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We continue working through letters 1-15 of On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795), helped by Markus Reuter.

We get clearer on what Schiller means by Beauty, and how two contrary drives toward matter and form somehow cancel each other out to combine in a "play drive" that is at the heart of appreciating and creating art.

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