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

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38: 175:'s providence. What is most peculiar and original to Burke's view of beauty is that it cannot be understood by the traditional bases of beauty: proportion, fitness, or perfection. The sublime also has a causal structure that is unlike that of beauty. Its formal cause is thus the passion of fear (especially the fear of death); the material cause is equally aspects of certain objects such as vastness, infinity, magnificence, etc.; its efficient cause is the tension of our nerves; the final cause is God having created and battled 1241: 205:
To make psychological observations, as Burke did in his treatise on the beautiful and the sublime, thus to assemble material for the systematic connection of empirical rules in the future without aiming to understand them, is probably the sole true duty of empirical psychology, which can hardly even
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critiqued Burke for not understanding the causes of the mental effects that occur in the experience of the beautiful or the sublime. According to Kant, Burke merely gathered data so that some future thinker could explain them.
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is that which has the power to compel and destroy us. The preference for the Sublime over the Beautiful was to mark the transition from the
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The origins of our ideas of the beautiful and the sublime, for Burke, can be understood by means of their
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A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful.
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The Science of Sensibility: Reading Burke's Philosophical Enquiry
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is that which is well-formed and aesthetically pleasing, whereas
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