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Quote:It would seem we have finally encountered Jean's opposite.
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Quote:"Sublime" refers to an aesthetic value in which the primary factor is the presence or suggestion of transcendent vastness or greatness, as of power, heroism, extent in space or time. It differs from greatness or grandeur in that these are as such capable of being completely grasped or measured. By contrast, the sublime, while in one aspect apprehended and grasped as a whole, is felt as transcending our normal standards of measurement or achievement. Two elements are emphasized in varying degree by different writers, and probably varying in different observers: (1) a certain baffling of our faculty with feeling of limitation akin to awe and veneration; (2) a stimulation of our abilities and elevation of the self in sympathy with its object. The element of magnitude in beauty was noted by Aristotle, and given by him a prominent place in tragedy. But the earliest extant determination of the sublime as a distinct conception is in the treatise ascribed to Longinus, but now supposed to be of earlier date (first century C.E.). In modern philosophy, it was given special prominence by Edmund Burke in his Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful (1756) and Henry Home in his Elements of Criticism who sought a psychological and physiological explanation. According to Burke, it is caused by a "mode of terror or pain," and is contrasted with the beautiful (rather than being part of the beautiful). Kant also distinguished it as a separate category form beauty, making it apply properly only to the mind, not to the object, and giving it a peculiar moral effect in opposing "the interests of sense." He distinguished a mathematical sublime of extension in space or time, and a dynamic of power. Most subsequent writers on aesthetics tend to bring the sublime within the beautiful in the broader sense insofar as its aesthetic quality is closely related to that of beauty.
Quote:sublime [sə'blam]adjective1 of high moral, aesthetic, intellectual, or spiritual value; noble; exalted 2 inspiring deep veneration, awe, or uplifting emotion because of its beauty, nobility, grandeur, or immensity 3 unparalleled; supremeexample: a sublime compliment 4 (poetic) of proud bearing or aspect 5 (archaic) raised up nounthe sublime6 something that is sublime 7 the ultimate degree or perfect exampleexample: the sublime of folly verb8 [transitive] to make higher or purer 9 to change or cause to change directly from a solid to a vapour or gas without first meltingexample: to sublime iodineexample: many mercury salts sublime when heated 10 to undergo or cause to undergo this process followed by a reverse change directly from a vapour to a solidexample: to sublime iodine onto glass
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