Full Idea
The sublime is understood by Kant as a moral experience.
Gist of Idea
The sublime is a moral experience
Source
report of Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement I: Aesthetic [1790], 28-9) by Sebastian Gardner - Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason 09 'Judgment'
Book Reference
Gardner,Sebastian: 'Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason' [Routledge 1999], p.326
A Reaction
Gardner give the source in Kant. I can't accept that the initial experience of the sublime is moral in character. It could easily acquire a moral character after contemplation by someone who had such inclinations.