PHIL10003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Moral Nihilism
Lecture 23: Kant: feeling and emotion, the sublime
Does kant's view properly capture the role of feeling & emotion?
r/s of aesthetics and affectivity
Kant & emotions / feeling
• He steers us away from feeling bc too vulgar but there is pleasure involved in appreciating
art
• Plausible aim: distinguish beauty from wrong kinds of pleasure
• Steer us away from moralizing art
• Appreciate beauty in itself
• Agreeableness brought about only by means of momentary inhibition of the vital force
followed by a stronger outpouring of it does not belong to beauty at all
• Limited view of emotion in art
• Emotional responses can be thought of as 'impure' aesthetic judgements
• Can have good works of art that leaves us cold -> modern art
Problem with color
• Rejection of materiality
• Not clear why color / materials in themselves are 'barbaric'
• Art stands for internal mental states -> convey subjective feelings to the audience -> only
one aesthetic feeling
Rebuttal of kant's view on emotion - david
• Appropriate emotional response seems important
• Seems to suggest kant has a very limited view of emotion in art
• Is kant's worry misplaced? -> emotional responses to art are framed by aesthetic distance
• Any kind of art must have an emotional response
The sublime - burke
• There might be more than one principle of art
• Captures the strongest emotions we could possibly feel
• Certain types of effects, colors relate to the sublime
Sublime & kant
• Find an apriori complex on how we could experience the sublime
• Becoming aware of the limits of our imagination -> experience how our imagination is
limited -> new capacity -> reason
• Explai the effets of the sulie ith the apaities e hae / do’t hae
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