Kant on Sublimity and Morality

✍ Scribed by Joshua Rayman

Publisher: University of Wales Press
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 234
Series: University of Wales Press - Political Philosophy Now
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The concept of the sublime was crucial to the thought of Immanuel Kant, who defined it as the experience of what is great in power, size, or number. From ancient times to the present, the aesthetic experience of the sublime has been associated with morality, but if we want to be able to exclude evil, fascistic, or terroristic uses of the sublime—the inescapable awe generated by the Nuremberg rallies, for example—we require a systematic justification of the claim that there are internal moral constraints on the sublime. In Kant on Sublimity and Morality, Joshua Rayman argues that Kant alone provides the system by which we can bind sublimity to moral ideas, the exhibition of freedom, the production of respect, and violence towards inclinations.

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