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the critique of judgement-第25部分
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n it; and thus to be richer for taste; than the human voice singing in accordance with all the rules that the art of music prescribes; for we grow tired much sooner of frequent and lengthy repetitions of the latter。 Yet here most likely our sympathy with the mirth of a dear little creature is confused with the beauty of its song; for if exactly imitated by man (as has been sometimes done with the notes of the nightingale) it would strike our ear as wholly destitute of taste。 Further; beautiful objects have to be distinguished from beautiful views of objects (where the distance often prevents a clear perception)。 In the latter case; taste appears to fasten; not so much on what the imagination grasps in this field; as on the incentive it receives to indulge in poetic fiction; i。 e。; in the peculiar fancies with which the mind entertains itself as it is being continually stirred by the variety that strikes the eye。 It is just as when we watch the changing shapes of the fire or of a rippling brook: neither of which are things of beauty; but they convey a charm to the imagination; because they sustain its free play。
SEC1|BK2 FIRST PART CRITIQUE OF AESTHETIC JUDGEMENT SECTION I。 ANALYTIC OF AESTHETIC JUDGEMENT。 BOOK II。 Analytic of the Sublime。
SS 23。 Transition from the faculty of estimating the beautiful to that of estimating the sublime。
The beautiful and the sublime agree on the point of pleasing on their own account。 Further they agree in not presupposing either a judgement of sense or one logically determinant; but one of reflection。 Hence it follows that the delight does not depend upon a sensation; as with the agreeable; nor upon a definite concept; as does the delight in the good; although it has; for all that; an indeterminate reference to concepts。 Consequently the delight is connected with the mere presentation or faculty of presentation; and is thus taken to express the accord; in a given intuition; of the faculty of presentation; or the imagination; with the faculty of concepts that belongs to understanding or reason; in the sense of the former assisting the latter。 Hence both kinds of judgements are singular; and yet such as profess to be universally valid in respect of every subject; despite the fact that their claims are directed merely to the feeling of pleasure and not to any knowledge of the object。 There are; however; also important and striking differences between the two。 The beautiful in nature is a question of the form of object; and this consists in limitation; whereas the sublime is to be found in an object even devoid of form; so far as it immediately involves; or else by its presence provokes a representation of limitlessness; yet with a superadded thought of its totality。 Accordingly; the beautiful seems to be regarded as a presentation of an indeterminate concept of understanding; the sublime as a presentation of an indeterminate concept of reason。 Hence the delight is in the former case coupled with the representation of quality; but in this case with that of quantity。 Moreover; the former delight is very different from the latter in kind。 For the beautiful is directly attended with a feeling of the furtherance of life; and is thus compatible with charms and a playful imagination。 On the other hand; the feeling of the sublime is a pleasure that only arises indirectly; being brought about by the feeling of a momentary check to the vital forces followed at once by a discharge all the more powerful; and so it is an emotion that seems to be no sport; but dead earnest in the affairs of the imagination。 Hence charms are repugnant to it; and; since the mind is not simply attracted by the object; but is also alternately repelled thereby; the delight in the sublime does not so much involve positive pleasure as admiration or respect; i。 e。; merits the name of a negative pleasure。 But the most important and vital distinction between the sublime and the beautiful is certainly this: that if; as is allowable; we here confine our attention in the first instance to the sublime in objects of nature (that of art being always restricted by the conditions of an agreement with nature); we observe that whereas natural beauty (such as is self…subsisting) conveys a finality in its form making the object appear; as it were; preadapted to our power of judgement; so that it thus forms of itself an object of our delight; that which; without our indulging in any refinements of thought; but; simply in our apprehension of it; excites the feeling of the sublime; may appear; indeed; in point of form to contravene the ends of our power of judgement; to be ill…adapted to our faculty of presentation; and to be; as it were; an outrage on the imagination; and yet it is judged all the more sublime on that account。 From this it may be seen at once that we express ourselves on the whole inaccurately if we term any object of nature sublime; although we may with perfect propriety call many such objects beautiful。 For how can that which is apprehended as inherently contra…final be noted with an expression of approval? All that we can say is that the object lends itself to the presentation of a sublimity discoverable in the mind。 For the sublime; in the strict sense of the word; cannot be contained in any sensuous form; but rather concerns ideas of reason; which; although no adequate presentation of them is possible; may be excited and called into the mind by that very inadequacy itself which does admit of sensuous presentation。 Thus the broad ocean agitated by storms cannot be called sublime。 Its aspect is horrible; and one must have stored one's mind in advance with a rich stock of ideas; if such an intuition is to raise it to the pitch of a feeling which is itself sublime…sublime because the mind has been incited to abandon sensibility and employ itself upon ideas involving higher finality。 Self…subsisting natural beauty reveals to us a technic of nature which shows it in the light of a system ordered in accordance with laws the principle of which is not to be found within the range of our entire faculty of understanding。 This principle is that of a finality relative to the employment of judgement in respect of phenomena which have thus to be assigned; not merely to nature regarded as aimless mechanism; but also to nature regarded after the analogy of art。 Hence it gives a veritable extension; not; of course; to our knowledge of objects of nature; but to our conception of nature itself…nature as mere mechanism being enlarged to the conception of nature as art…an extension inviting profound inquiries as to the possibility of such a form。 But in what we are wont to call sublime in nature there is such an absence of anything leading to particular objective principles and corresponding forms of nature that it is rather in its chaos; or in its wildest and most irregular disorder and desolation; provided it gives signs of magnitude and power; that nature chiefly excites the ideas of the sublime。 Hence we see that the concept of the sublime in nature is far less important and rich in consequences than that of its beauty。 It gives on the whole no indication of anything final in nat
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