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Deducing Beauty: Beauty and Human Perfection in Schiller’s Aesthetic Letters

Deducing Beauty: Beauty and Human Perfection in Schiller’s Aesthetic Letters

As I have argued in a previous essay,1 Schiller’s Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man seeks to establish the necessity of beauty for human life by offering two kinds of argument. The first argument turns on the salutary political effects of beauty, and the second on the concept of beauty itself, arguing that it …

Playing with the Sky: The Decans (or the Phenomenology of the Faces of Heaven)

Playing with the Sky: The Decans (or the Phenomenology of the Faces of Heaven)

The decans (or faces/ πρόσωπα) constitute an enigmatic form of rulership in ancient astrology. Rumored to have originated in Egypt,[1] the decans were associated with particular stars whose faces shone through the constellations, thus giving rise to their alternative designation as “faces.”[2] Yet, after the inception of Hellenistic astrology and the transition to a tropical …