Enlightenment

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'Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage - have the courage to use your own reason!

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Immanuel Kant - 1784 - 'What is Enlightenment?'

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Aesthetics: parallel to intellectual knowledge, perceptual not conceptual

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Alexander Baumgarten - 1750

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Trusting reason, logic, clear and distinct ideas of the mind rather than either sense experience or empirical investigation.

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Rationalist theory; Rene Decartes

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Empiricism: 1. Mind Begins as a blank slate

2. Empirical [sense] experience is the only source of secure knowledge.
Objective evidence is valued, found only in the external, material world. Music is emotional and sensory.

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1. John Locke
2. Thomas Hobbes

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Judgements of beauty are
Quality: disinterested
Quantity: conceptless
Relation: Purposive/purposeless
Modality: Exemplary

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Critique of Judgement, 'Beauty' - Immanuel Kant,

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Sublime: vast, rugged, right line with strong deviations, dark and gloomy, solid, massive.
Beautiful: small, smooth, not obscure, light, delicate

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Edmund Burke, 1757

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Sublime: that which lifts us above ourselves, and makes us aware of our exalted state

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De Jeaucourt - 1765

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Sublime: whatever is much greater of more powerful than expected.
Works on us with 'hammer blows' and 'siezes us and irresistably overwhelms us'

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Johann Georg Sulzer - 1792-4

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Sublime: transcends all physical reality', most perfect when 'links finite and phenomenal' and 'infinite and divine'

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Gustav Schilling - 1834