A retelling of Immanuel Kant · 1764

Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime

“The young Kant's elegant essay, written more as an observer of human nature than as a philosopher: on the two kinds of 'finer feeling' — for the sublime, which moves, and the beautiful, which charms — as they show themselves in nature, in human qualities and temperaments, in the relations of the sexes and in the characters of nations. Its last two sections reflect the prejudices of its age.”

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Contents4 episodes · ~8 min

  1. 1Section One: On the Different Objects of the Feeling of the Sublime and the BeautifulFree
  2. 2Section Two: On the Qualities of the Sublime and the Beautiful in the Human Being in General🔒
  3. 3Section Three: On the Distinction of the Sublime and the Beautiful in the Relation of the Two Sexes🔒
  4. 4Section Four: On National Characters, insofar as They Rest on the Different Feelings of the Sublime and the Beautiful🔒