A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is an influential 18th-century treatise that explores the psychological and aesthetic foundations of the sublime and the beautiful, helping to shape modern aesthetics and Romantic thought.
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Target entity: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful Context triple: [Edmund Burke, notableWork, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful]
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Analytic of the Sublime
Analytic of the Sublime is the section of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment in which he analyzes the feeling of the sublime and its relation to reason, freedom, and the limits of human sensibility.
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Analytic of the Beautiful
Analytic of the Beautiful is the section of Immanuel Kant’s aesthetic theory that systematically examines judgments of beauty, their subjective universality, and their relation to feeling and cognition.
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Lectures on Aesthetics
Lectures on Aesthetics is a posthumously published collection of G. W. F. Hegel’s university lectures that presents his influential philosophy of art and beauty within his broader idealist system.
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Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect
Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect is an unfinished philosophical work by Baruch Spinoza that outlines a method for improving the mind to attain true knowledge and intellectual perfection.
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Discourse on the Arts and Sciences
Discourse on the Arts and Sciences is an influential 1750 philosophical essay by Jean-Jacques Rousseau that argues the progress of arts and sciences has corrupted human morality rather than improved it.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Target entity: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful Target entity description: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is an influential 18th-century treatise that explores the psychological and aesthetic foundations of the sublime and the beautiful, helping to shape modern aesthetics and Romantic thought.
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A.
Analytic of the Sublime
Analytic of the Sublime is the section of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment in which he analyzes the feeling of the sublime and its relation to reason, freedom, and the limits of human sensibility.
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B.
Analytic of the Beautiful
Analytic of the Beautiful is the section of Immanuel Kant’s aesthetic theory that systematically examines judgments of beauty, their subjective universality, and their relation to feeling and cognition.
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C.
Lectures on Aesthetics
Lectures on Aesthetics is a posthumously published collection of G. W. F. Hegel’s university lectures that presents his influential philosophy of art and beauty within his broader idealist system.
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D.
Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect
Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect is an unfinished philosophical work by Baruch Spinoza that outlines a method for improving the mind to attain true knowledge and intellectual perfection.
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E.
Discourse on the Arts and Sciences
Discourse on the Arts and Sciences is an influential 1750 philosophical essay by Jean-Jacques Rousseau that argues the progress of arts and sciences has corrupted human morality rather than improved it.
- F. None of above. chosen
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aesthetic treatise
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non-fiction book ⓘ philosophical treatise ⓘ |
| author | Edmund Burke ⓘ |
| centuryOfPublication | 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| field |
art theory
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literary theory ⓘ philosophy ⓘ |
| firstEditionPlaceOfPublication |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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| genre |
aesthetics
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philosophy of art ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose treatise ⓘ |
| hasLaterEdition | second edition with revisions ⓘ |
| hasPart |
analysis of the beautiful
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analysis of the sublime ⓘ discussion of pleasure ⓘ discussion of taste ⓘ discussion of terror and pain ⓘ |
| historicalContext | pre-Romantic aesthetics ⓘ |
| influenced |
Edmund Burke’s later political thought
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German Idealism ⓘ
linked to:
German idealism
Immanuel Kant ⓘ Romanticism ⓘ modern aesthetics ⓘ |
| keyConcept |
association of ideas
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delicacy as a characteristic of the beautiful ⓘ obscurity as a source of the sublime ⓘ smoothness as a characteristic of the beautiful ⓘ social and physiological bases of aesthetic response ⓘ terror as a source of the sublime ⓘ vastness as a source of the sublime ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
aesthetic experience
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psychology of perception ⓘ the beautiful ⓘ the sublime ⓘ |
| movement |
British empiricism
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Enlightenment philosophy ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influence on Romantic literary theory
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psychological explanation of aesthetic feelings ⓘ systematic distinction between the sublime and the beautiful ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| philosophicalApproach |
empiricism
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psychological analysis ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1757 ⓘ |
| publisher |
R. and J. Dodsley
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linked to:
J. Dodsley
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| titleAbbreviation | Philosophical Enquiry ⓘ |
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Edmund Burke
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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On the Pleasures Derived from Objects of Terror
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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Enlightenment aesthetics
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Edmund Burke’s "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"
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linked to: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful