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"het sublieme" 

burke 1756

licht donker cfr mooi subliem

het sublieme bepaalt de contouren van het mooie

en kan net zo goed gesmaakt worden;

schrik maar plezier in het idee dat het fictie is; delight form removal of pain, zelfs mee intens dan positief plezier

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Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

In order to clarify the concept of the feeling of the sublime, Schopenhauer listed examples of its transition from the beautiful to the most sublime. This can be found in the first volume of his The World as Will and Representation, § 39.

For him, the feeling of the beautiful is pleasure in simply seeing a benign object. The feeling of the sublime, however, is pleasure in seeing an overpowering or vast malignant object of great magnitude, one that could destroy the observer.

• gevoel van schoonheid – Light is reflected off a flower. (Pleasure from a mere perception of an object that cannot hurt observer).
• zwakste gevoel vh sublieme – Light reflected off stones. (Pleasure from beholding objects that pose no threat, yet themselves are devoid of life).
• zwakker gevoel vh sublieme – Endless desert with no movement. (Pleasure from seeing objects that could not sustain the life of the observer).
• het sublieme – Turbulent Nature. (Pleasure from perceiving objects that threaten to hurt or destroy observer).
• volledig gevoel vh sublieme – Overpowering turbulent Nature. (Pleasure from beholding very violent, destructive objects).
• meest volledige gevoel vh sublimee – Immensity of Universe's extent or duration. (Pleasure from knowledge of observer's nothingness and oneness with Nature).