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Definition:
The term sublime is related to sublimation, and comes from the Latin sublimis,
which means "uplifted." Edmund Burke, who was responsible for the development of the
sublime as an important aesthetic principle in modern art, descriobed the concept of the
sublime in his 1757 book Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the
Sublime and the Beautiful as something grand and dangerous - so grand and dangerous,
in fact, that it cannot but evoke feelings of dread or veneration.
The use of the sublime became common in Romantic art through the use of dark and irregular forms, organic figures standing in opposition to the mechanical, regular figures of Classical art.
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What is Aesthetics?
In philosophy, aesthetics is the study of beauty and taste, whether in the form of the comic, the tragic or the sublime. Aesthetics has traditionally been part of other philosophical pursuits like the investigation of epistemology or ethics. However, it started to come into its own and become a more independent pursuit under Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher who saw aesthetics as a unitary and self-sufficient type of human experience.What is Philosophy?
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