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Single Idea 21458
[filed under theme 21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 6. The Sublime
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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 Ref
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.
The
15 ideas
from 'Critique of Judgement I: Aesthetic'
12157
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Kant gave form and status to aesthetics, and Hegel gave it content
[Kant, by Scruton]
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20346
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The aesthetic attitude is a matter of disinterestedness
[Kant, by Wollheim]
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18547
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Only rational beings can experience beauty
[Kant, by Scruton]
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24170
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Kant thinks beauty ignores its objects, because it is only 'form' engaging with mind
[Cochrane on Kant]
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22711
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The beautiful is not conceptualised as moral, but it symbolises or resembles goodness
[Kant, by Murdoch]
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4025
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Kant saw beauty as a sort of disinterested pleasure, which has become separate from the good
[Kant, by Taylor,C]
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22046
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The mathematical sublime is immeasurable greatness; the dynamical sublime is overpowering
[Kant, by Pinkard]
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5643
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Aesthetic values are not objectively valid, but we must treat them as if they are
[Kant, by Scruton]
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24172
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It is hard to see why we would have developed Kant's 'disinterested' aesthetic attitude
[Cochrane on Kant]
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21458
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The sublime is a moral experience
[Kant, by Gardner]
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20410
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The judgement of beauty is not cognitive, but relates, via imagination, to pleasurable feelings
[Kant]
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20412
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Beauty is only judged in pure contemplation, and not with something else at stake
[Kant]
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20408
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With respect to the senses, taste is an entirely personal matter
[Kant]
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20409
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When we judge beauty, it isn't just personal; we judge on behalf of everybody
[Kant]
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20411
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Saying everyone has their own taste destroys the very idea of taste
[Kant]
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