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[289] This prevented us from going over another bridge from the theoretical to the practical, the bridge which we now want to go [over], namely the aesthetic realm, the realm of man's artistic creation. But before saying something about the position of man's artistic creation, I will give you an outline of the whole semester in terms of hours. Unfortunately, there will be one hour missing because of another mystical holiday! -- but there will remain 22 or 23 hours. Next Tuesday I will speak on the problem of the relation between aand b c. In the third hour I will speak about the four levels of the relationship of art and religion. In the fourth, I will give examples in the visual arts for those four levels, from the slides taken from the Fogg Museum. In the fifth hour I will discuss this whole realm of problems and begin something which could have been done at the beginning of last semester, but which I postponed to the beginning of this one, namely the analysis of our present cultural situation as seen in the light of the analysis of the artistic creation in our 20th century. Then I will continue this in the 6th hour, the analysis of the present situation, but now in the light of the preceding periods of Western

civilization. Then a continuation of this analysis of our PRESENT-day industrial society and the place of religion in it. This will be a third transition, so to speak, from the theoretical to the practical, and another way of orienting ourselves about the present situation in which we discuss the problem of religion and culture. Then I go to the different realms. As the first one, I take religion and d---the meaning of education, FROM what one is educated and we always forget the problem "INTO what?" Then the problem of religious education, where we again

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aArt
bReligion
cSymbols
dEducation

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