Episode #060 ... Kant pt. 5 - The Sublime
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The Substrate Is Something More Real Than Beauty
The sublime is visceral in nature. It's not based on some, you know, intellectual calculation that we're making. To edmund burke, it's part of what makes us human. Very different then beauty. You find beauty in the world, it's more passive. You sit back, you find something beautiful, and you enjoy it. When the mind finds something sublime, he says the mind swells when it finds that. Obviously a much more active thing. The sublime, to burke, is a much more real, much more important type of aesthetic judgment than beauty. Artists have always tried to give people this experience through their art. If you're interested in this a quest
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