A classic conversation. This time, from Facebook:
Chip: I'm putting together a unified german idealist aesthetic theory involving schiller, hegel and schelling. the essential question: can the aesthetic bridge the sensuous principle with the rational principle? they seem to all agree that it can, but how?
Brenda: huh…i just drooled
Chip: so, that is what I'm working on
Brenda: i have no idea what that means, but good luck
Chip: well, in every person, there is a sensous nature (feeling, perception)
Brenda: okaaaay....
Chip: And a rational principle (cognition, reason, thought, etc..) however, according to these thinkers, these two principles are in constant opposition
Brenda: blah blah blahhhhh
...banging head on keyboard. Lets see what i can spell....
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SWEET!
My head has indents of computer keys now.
Chip: and it is by means of the aesthetic perception which can bring them in harmony. Kant calls it "free play of the imagination"
Brenda: omg. You are still going? WOW.
Yomomma thinks he was trying to explain the universal appeal of pornography.
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