Incommensurable, Supersensible, Sublime

American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 75 (2):221-241 (2001)
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Abstract

The sublime (das Erhabene) in Kant is a feeling that elevates (erhebt)! the soul and results in an aesthetic judgment. While aesthetic judgments of beauty involve a feeling of pure pleasure (Lust), aesthetic judgments of the sublime rest on a feeling of pleasure and displeasure (Lust und Unlust) at the same moment. Kant describes the sublime at one point rather paradoxically as involving a" negative pleasure"(Critique 0/Judgment, Ak. V: 245). 2 The feeling of the sublime is brought about by experiences where one has a sense of the infinity (Unendlichkeit) of nature. This sense of infinity can be brought about by the sheer size (Grofle) of an object. Kant would call this a feeling of the mathematically sublime. A mountain so large that one cannot take it in at a single glance causes a feeling of the mathematically sublime. One gets a different sense of the infinity of 'Kant's deliberate connection of the noun for the sublime

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Jeffrey L. Wilson
Loyola Marymount University

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