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Full Idea
Egoistic accounts of the sublime allow that our fragility is revealed, but also claim we feel something positive about ourselves. Non-egoistic accounts question whether the self-negation is so terrible after all.
Gist of Idea
Accounts of sublimity differ over whether we learn something good about ourselves
Source
Tom Cochrane (The Aesthetic Value of the World [2021], 3.2)
Book Ref
Cochrane,Tom: 'The Aesthetic Value of the World' [OUP 2021], p.58
A Reaction
[compressed] I think I favour the non-egoistic approach. It is like the thrill of seeing a great performance in the arts or sport. It humbles me - but also I feel part of something greater than me. Like a child on the winning side in a war.