Facs
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You will receive one or two books [i.e. book titles] for each of these subjects. I wanted to cover, if possible, all realms of study at a university – at least the larger realms; or [sic.] course one cannot go into every specialty.
Discussion with students:
Question: [On medicine] –
a: Yes, but I discussed it at the end of last semester in the connection of the problem of healing.
Question: But it was too short!
b: I accept this criticism wholeheartedly, and I will see what can be done about it. Please keep reminding me of it ... A group of medical students have invited me to discuss with them ... Any other question? Of course these things should be existential, i.e., they should concern your real academic existence.
Let me say a few words in the last two minutes. The artistic realm belongs in one sense to the realm of receiving reality. I had many discussions in philosophical groups how much cognitive elements are in arts. And I believe there are some; reality is grasped in a dimension which is different, of course, from the other cognitive realms. But that is only the one side of art; there are two more. The one is the expressive power of art. Before being anything else, art is expression, expression in a form which is the special artistic form. In former centuries one called that “beautiful.” Today, “beautiful” is identified with a special type of beautifying naturalism, which is a less valuable style of all styles of art. Therefore we avoid the term today.