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As J.M. Bernstein puts it in a [lecture on](https://www.bernsteintapes.com/3rdCritiquelist.html) *[Critique of Judgment](https://www.bernsteintapes.com/3rdCritiquelist.html),* genius can be seen as “the exemplary expression of human freedom.” And thinking about artworks, he argues — that is engaging aesthetic ideas — “is a difficult and exemplary way of thinking about the nature and meaning of human freedom” because “when we make artworks, we make original, new meaning.”
Epic Forgetting
Rob Horning
The terms exploitation and nurture, on the other hand, describe a division not only between persons but also within persons. We are all to some extent the products of an exploitive society, and it would be foolish and self-defeating to pretend that we do not bear its stamp.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
In the following pages I shall merely try to show that given the modern means of production and their unlimited reproductive power it is necessary to curb the extravagant passion of the laborers for work and to oblige them to consume the goods which they produce.
The Right to Be Lazy and Other Essays
Paul Lafargue and Ulrich Baer
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