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SUBLIME, OIP, OIP (1) - Coggle Diagram
SUBLIME
What
Is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic
Sensation attributed to the sublime as a "negative pain" which Burke called "delight" and which is distinct from positive pleasure
Two notions of sublime
Mathematically sublime: We can prove the mathematically sublime when we are confronted with something that is so large that is overwhelms imagination's capacity to comprehend it
Dynamically sublime: We can prove the dynamically sublime when we experience nature as fearful while knowing ourselves to be in a position of safety and hence without in fact being in danger
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How
The sublime's concept was developed in a "Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"
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