Episode #060 ... Kant pt. 5 - The Sublime
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A Different Way of Taking Pleasure From the Experience
Two of the most famous for their accounts of the sublime specifically were john dennis and joseph addison. Dennis talks about having almost the same seemingly paradoxical feelings as he's braving the alps in his time. What these diaries show us, if anything, i think is the beginning of what seems to be a completely different way of aesthetically judging the world while getting pleasure from the experience that has nothing to do with beauty. I'm sure you can see the striking resemblance here to plotinus theodysy but for me, this is a pretty awesome assumption that's being called into question.
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