Kant's Sublime

Kant: Beautiful is Sublime? In the Of the Distinct Objects of the Feelings of the Beautiful and Sublime written by Kant describes beauty and sublime as different entities. ‘Beauty is that in the beholder’ is a saying that has been said throughout history and is true to an existent. Kant explains that beauty comes after the state of feeling or sublime. Such as his quote “The sublime moves, the beauty charms,” as that sublime comes from experience of these emotions, such as pain or pleasure as Kant states. An example he uses is that humans have their own mindset and one man can love reading books, “An indolent man who loves having books read aloud to him because it is so pleasant to fall asleep that way” yet another man could have a different idea of what he deals as pleasant. Kant describes that beauty and sublime can be one of the same or alternated to something else, nevertheless human …show more content…
Understand that the visual aspect is an understatement to what we perceive beauty is. They way I describe the second image is considered to be sublime since I used more descriptive language, the use of powerful imagery, and from this the audience will get the feelings of emotions of sublime and turn that into beauty. Kant use of dialogue suggests that his perspective of beauty is to show the world that sublime in its context revoke these feelings and turn them around to beauty. Beauty is people’s own judgements of this matter it is not a collective of people’s thoughts or minds rather it is a singular verbal that people hold valuable and close to