PHIL10003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Moral Nihilism

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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 effets of the sulie ith the apaities e hae / do’t hae
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