PHL 317K Lecture 12: The Sublime
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We have two kinds of passions: those having to do with self-preservation (emphasizing pain, danger, horror especially strong emotions) and those that are social (having to do with sex, friendship, love, and sympathy). The beautiful has to do with passions that are social (having to do with reproduction, love, sympathy,). We feel fear, even terror in reaction: a feature of sublime is obscurity, which is frightening, the sublime is aesthetically pleasing, it can be aesthetic only when at a safe distance. It seems to be beyond our ability to understand it. Judgment), he gives a more elaborate account. https://www. evernote. com/home. action?login=true#n=5a7dc8fa 2fa5 42dc b8f4 e18693322c60&b=5fbbfd67 f247 4284 a774 7b2ce1833230&ses=4&sh=1&sds= 1/3. 3/20/2017: the mathematical sublime is that which is too large to encompass in a single image. The dynamical sublime is that which is so powerful as to overwhelm our will and our physical nature. 1) totality would include all of reality, including all possibilities.
