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Kant on Sublimity and Morality
Author(s): Joshua Rayman (Author)
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication Date: 15 July 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 0708321259
- ISBN-13: 9780708321256
Book Description
The sublime is the experience of what is great in power, size, or number. Historically, from ancient times to the present, this aesthetic experience has always been associated with morality, but in order to exclude evil, fascistic or terroristic uses of the sublime, we require a systematic justification of the claim that there are internal moral constraints on the sublime. The author argues that Immanuel Kant alone provides this account binding sublimity to moral ideas, the exhibition of freedom, the production of respect and violence toward inclinations.
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About the Author
Dr Joshua Rayman is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of South Florida, specializing in Kant, 19th and 20th Century-Continental Philosophy, and Aesthetics.
