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Quotation from The Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
“so that we can thus reach the body through the soul and use the latter as the physician of the former”
The Critique of Judgement, Part I, § 54 (Remark), trans. J. H. Bernard (1914)
Kant argues that the gratification of music and wit lies in the furtherance of vital bodily processes, so that the play of ideas acts on the body's health.
Citation: "so that we can thus reach the body through the soul and use the latter as the physician of the former" — Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgement, Part I, § 54 (Remark), trans. J. H. Bernard (1914). (id kant-critique-of-judgement-q9)
