Episode 207: Herder on Art Appreciation (Part Two)

Continuing on Johann Gottfried von Herder's "The Causes of Sunken Taste among the Different Peoples in Whom It Once Blossomed" (1775), then moving to "On the Influence of the Belles Lettres on the Higher Sciences" (1781), "Does Painting or Music Have a Greater Effect? A Divine Colloquy" (1785), and and some of Critical Forests: Fourth Grove (written 1769). With guest rock god John "Jughead" Pierson.

What grounds good taste in a society? Can an aesthetic education ground abstract thought? What would such an education consist in? Which is more affecting, music or painting?

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