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Like. “Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt”. ― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason. tags: beautiful, sublime.
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Kant’s thought was very influential in Germany during his...
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between subject and object, that is, of the predicate of beauty, is for Kant, that of harmony (Uebereinstimmung). In the second introduction, sec. VII, to the third Critique, Kant states quite clearly that the pleasure we feel in judging the beautiful object is based upon a harmony between the.
- You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am. Immanuel Kant. Know Me, Knows.
- We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without. Immanuel Kant. Inspirational, Poverty, Rich.
- Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. Immanuel Kant. Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness.
- Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong. Immanuel Kant. Strong, Weakness, Weak.
Oct 8, 2014 · “In human nature,” Kant says, “praiseworthy qualities are never found without degenerate varieties in infinitely descending shadings.” (213) Beauty—or pleasure in immediate harmony with that of others—and sublimity—or mastery of inclination—are, so conceived, both mutually supporting and in tension. 9 Thus beauty without ...
Jul 2, 2005 · Kant’s suggestion that representational art has “adherent” rather than “free” beauty, and that judgments about such art fail to be pure, might also invite the objection that Kant takes nonrepresentational art to be superior to representational art, so that, say, wallpaper designs are aesthetically more valuable than the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Like beauty, the sublime is a species of reflective aesthetic judgment and as such shares all the principal features that beauty possesses, among these the prevalence of pleasure (Lust, Wohlgefallen)—Kant devotes an entire chapter to this (§27)—and the fact that the faculties are promoted, not hindered, through their mutual interplay, which is to say through the harmony of the faculties ...
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What genius does, Kant says, is to provide ‘soul’ or ‘spirit’ (‘Seele‘, sect.49) to what would otherwise be uninspired. This peculiar idea seems to be used in a sense analogous to saying that someone ‘has soul’, meaning to have nobility or a deep and exemplary moral character, as opposed to being shallow or even in a sense animal-like; but Kant also, following the Aristotelian ...
