Lecture XXIII (Nr. 0296)
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[292] 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. QN: [On medicine] --- PT: Yes, but I discussed it at the end of last semester in the connection of the problem of healing. QN: But it was too short! PT: 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, ie. [sic.], they should concern your real academic existence.
Let me say a few words in the last two minutes. The arealm 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.