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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Edmund 1729-1797 Burke

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Burke's work explored the sublime as a unique pleasure derived from feeling one's life is in danger while encountering something immensely powerful; he distinguished it from beauty, emphasizing that the sublime is visceral and not based on intellectual calculation.

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if taste has no fixed principles, if the imagination is not affected according to some invariable and certain laws, our labor must be judged a useless undertaking to set up for a legislator of whims a...

— Episode: Episode #060 ... Kant pt. 5 - The Sublim...

Episode: Episode #060 ... Kant pt. 5 - The Sublime

Burke's work explored the sublime as a unique pleasure derived from feeling one's life is in danger while encountering something immensely powerful; he distinguished it from beauty, emphasizing that the sublime is visceral and not based on intellectual calculation.

"

if taste has no fixed principles, if the imagination is not affected according to some invariable and certain laws, our labor must be judged a useless undertaking to set up for a legislator of whims and fancies

these waters must be troubled before they can exert their virtues.

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