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Kant’s Concept of the Sublime

A Pathway to the Numinous by: Pabitrakumar Roy

This work focuses on Kant’s concern with the problem of moral motivation. It argues that there is a gap between objectively conceived principle and subjective motivation, and aesthetic experience of the sublime — phenomenon of utmost existential importance — fills this gap.

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ISBN: 9788186921302
Year Of Publication: 2005
Edition: 1st
Pages : 110
Bibliographic Details : Bibliography; Index
Language : English
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher: Decent Books
Size: 23 cm.
Weight: 350

Overview

Kant’s Concept of the Sublime: A Pathway to the Numinous focuses attention on Kant’s concern with the problem of moral motivation, the significance of the aesthetic experience, particularly the experience of the Sublime in terms of his overall concern with morality. As the Sublime is considered in the context of moral motivation, this is a new approach. The work argues that the importance of knowledge of the existence of a supersensible ground of ourselves and our actions lies in its role as motivation. There is a gap between objectively conceived principle and subjective motivation. The aesthetic experience of the Sublime provides an experience that helps fill this gap. There is a moral feeling that precedes the Categorical Imperative in spite of the second Critique’s argument that the feeling of respect follows from awareness of the moral law. The aesthetic experience is a phenomenon of the utmost existential importance. For Kant the aesthetic experience specially the experience of the Sublime, is phenomenologically important to him, as it helped in pursuing his life long moral project. The Kantian corpus heightens his concern with the problem of moral motivation and his thought on feeling a motive capable of moving the existing individual to subordinate the fulfillment of the subjective desire in favour of the objectively conceived universal law. Once this concern is properly understood, Kant’s importance to the connection between the feeling of the Sublime and our awareness of our known supersensible faculty becomes clear. The publication of this book coincides with the commemoration of 200 years of Kant’s death.

Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
1. Introduction
2. Transcendental Freedom
3. Analytic of the Beautiful — The Judgement of taste
4. The Phenomenon Called Beauty
5. Kant’s Concept of Art
6. The Beautiful and the Moral
7. Beauty as a Symbol of Morality
8. The Sublime: How the sublime Differs from the Beautiful
9. The Nature of the Sublime
10. The Sublime and the Moral
11. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Meet the Author
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Pabitrakumar Roy, presently Fellow of Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, was till recently Senior Fellow of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi. Roy taught Philosophy for over three decades at Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan and the University of North Bengal. He had been Visiting Faculty at various Indian Universities and British Council Scholar at King's College Cambridge and University of Reading. Roy has authored scores of papers and some of his works are David Hume; Rabindranath Tagore; Hume and Kant: A Study in Linkages, Man and Technology. The areas of his interest lie in Moral Psychology and Aesthetics.
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