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January 5, 2023
Cultivating Beauty: Schiller on the Political Effects of Art

Cultivating Beauty: Schiller on the Political Effects of Art

True to its title, Friedrich Schiller’s Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man examines beauty’s role in individual and cultural development. At its most general level, the Aesthetic Letters investigates two key questions: (1) What is beauty? (2) And what are its effects on human life? Inspired by Kant, Schiller attempts to answer the first …

January 3, 2021
Sages and Fishes

Sages and Fishes

Pythagoras’ miracle of the fish I have been re-reading ancient accounts of the life of Pythagoras and was struck by a story about a miracle he performed regarding fish. Porphyry, a Neo-Platonic philosopher, recounts this story in the context of others which speak of the sage’s ability to commune with animals (e.g. petting a bear …

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