Research on the Sublime Concept in the Pre-critical Period of Kant

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10.2991/iccese-19.2019.154How to use a DOI?

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sublime; Kant; pre-critical period; empiricism; transcendence

Abstract

In the pre-critical period, Kant’s understanding of sublime is different from Critique of Judgment. First, under the influence of predecessors, Kant understands the sublime as empirical psychological feelings, and takes natural landscape, gender characteristics of men and women as the realistic source of inspiring sublime feelings; second, Kant takes the “providence” of external empirical facts, such as universal moral principle and “the purpose of nature” as the sublime transcendental basis. Kant does not have a self-consistent analysis of sublime in this period as manifested in the absence of a provision of pure epistemological significance for sublime transcendence, and even in the swing between whether man is natural purpose or means not. This contradiction between experience and transcendence, as two kinds of explanation ways, becomes the origin of Kant’s critical philosophy.

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