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Single Idea 21928
[filed under theme 21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 6. The Sublime
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Full Idea
Exaltation of the Sublime is the struggle to maintain will-less knowing in the face of a threat to the human will. The Sublime contains an awful beauty and a delightful terror because it includes a threat to human existence.
Gist of Idea
The Sublime fights for will-less knowing, when faced with a beautiful threat to humanity
Source
report of Arthur Schopenhauer (The World as Will and Idea [1819], I 201-7) by Peter B. Lewis - Schopenhauer 5
Book Ref
Lewis, Peter B.: 'Schopenhauer' [Reaktion Books 2012], p.116
A Reaction
Can you experience the Sublime when looking down a microscope? Can a mere theory in cosmology be sublime? Can a supposed perception of the Sublime ever be incorrect? We no longer worry about these questions, it seems.
Related Idea
Idea 21924
As the subject of willing I am wretched, but absorption in knowledge is bliss [Schopenhauer]
The
43 ideas
from 'The World as Will and Idea'
21923
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Schopenhauer can't use force/energy instead of 'will', because he is not a materialist
[Lewis,PB on Schopenhauer]
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21926
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Schopenhauer, unlike other idealists, says reality is irrational
[Schopenhauer, by Lewis,PB]
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7187
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Schopenhauer was caught in Christian ideals, because he didn't deify his 'will'
[Nietzsche on Schopenhauer]
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8116
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The will-less contemplation of art brings a liberation from selfhood
[Schopenhauer, by Gardner]
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21370
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Schopenhauer is a chief proponent of aesthetic experience as 'disinterested'
[Schopenhauer, by Janaway]
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5649
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Will casts aside each of its temporary fulfilments, so human life has no ultimate aim
[Schopenhauer, by Scruton]
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4162
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The world only exists in relation to something else, as an idea of the one who conceives it
[Schopenhauer]
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4163
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All perception is intellectual
[Schopenhauer]
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4164
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Direct feeling of the senses are merely data; perception of the world comes with understanding causes
[Schopenhauer]
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12171
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Absurdity is incongruity between correct and false points of view
[Schopenhauer]
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21922
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We know reality because we know our own bodies and actions
[Schopenhauer]
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21365
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Only the will is thing-in-itself, seen both in blind nature and in human action
[Schopenhauer]
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21367
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I know both aspects of my body, as representation, and as will
[Schopenhauer]
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21371
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We can never attain happiness while our will is pursuing desires
[Schopenhauer]
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21928
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The Sublime fights for will-less knowing, when faced with a beautiful threat to humanity
[Schopenhauer, by Lewis,PB]
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21374
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We should no more expect ethical theory to produce good people than aesthetics to produce artists
[Schopenhauer]
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21913
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Kant rightly separates appearance and thing-in-itself
[Schopenhauer]
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21366
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Metaphysics must understand the world thoroughly, as a principal source of knowledge
[Schopenhauer]
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4167
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The knowing subject and the crude matter of the world are both in themselves unknowable
[Schopenhauer]
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4166
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A consciousness without an object is no consciousness
[Schopenhauer]
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4165
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Descartes found the true beginning of philosophy with the Cogito, in the consciousness of the individual
[Schopenhauer]
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4168
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Matter and intellect are inseparable correlatives which only exist relatively, and for each other
[Schopenhauer]
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21927
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Schopenhauer emphasises Ideas in art, unlike most romantics
[Schopenhauer, by Lewis,PB]
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4169
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Every true act of will is also at once and without exception a movement of the body
[Schopenhauer]
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4170
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Man's actions are not free, because they follow strictly from impact of motive on character
[Schopenhauer]
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4171
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Philosophy considers only the universal, in nature as everywhere else
[Schopenhauer]
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4172
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Happiness is the swift movement from desire to satisfaction, and then again on to desire
[Schopenhauer]
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21369
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We have hidden and unadmitted desires and fears, suppressed because of vanity
[Schopenhauer]
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21380
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The only aim of our existence is to grasp that non-existence would be better
[Schopenhauer]
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4173
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If we were essentially intellect rather than will, our moral worth would depend on imagined motives
[Schopenhauer]
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4174
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Man is more beautiful than anything else, and the loftiest purpose of art is to reveal his nature
[Schopenhauer]
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4175
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It is as perverse to resent our individuality being replaced by others, as to resent the body renewing itself
[Schopenhauer]
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4176
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We all regard ourselves a priori as free, but see from experience that character and motive compel us
[Schopenhauer]
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4177
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Most people would probably choose non-existence at the end of their life, rather than relive the whole thing
[Schopenhauer]
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4178
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Christianity is a pessimistic religion, in which the world is equated with evil
[Schopenhauer]
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4179
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The essence of nature is the will to life itself
[Schopenhauer]
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4180
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Religion is the mythical clothing of the truth which is inaccessible to the crude human intellect
[Schopenhauer]
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4181
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Every good is essentially relative, for it has its essential nature only in its relation to a desiring will
[Schopenhauer]
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4182
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A principal pleasure of the beautiful is that it momentarily silences the will
[Schopenhauer]
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4183
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Only self-love can motivate morality, but that also makes it worthless
[Schopenhauer]
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4185
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Altruistic people make less distinction than usual between themselves and others
[Schopenhauer]
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4184
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Virtue must spring from an intuitive recognition that other people are essentially like us
[Schopenhauer]
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4186
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Everyone is conscious of all philosophical truths, but philosophers bring them to conceptual awareness
[Schopenhauer]
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