Presupposed in Plato's system is a doctrine of levels of insight, in which a certain kind of detached understanding is alone capable of penetrating to the most sublime wisdom.

This is the year home runs ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous.

The challenge to the assumption that beauty was central to art and aesthetics, thought to be original, is actually continuous with older aesthetic theory ; Aristotle was the first in the Western tradition to classify " beauty " into types as in his theory of drama, and Kant made a distinction between beauty and the sublime.

These unconscious reactions may even be partly constitutive of what makes our judgment a judgment that the landscape is sublime.

Another view, as important to the philosophy of art as " beauty ," is that of the " sublime ," elaborated upon in the twentieth century by the postmodern philosopher Jean-François Lyotard.

Je Tsongkhapa says that although the other Bodhisattvas wish for that which is impossible, their attitude is sublime and unmistaken.

The cold fractured surface ( sometimes " etched " by increasing the temperature to about − 100 ° C for several minutes to let some ice sublime ) is then shadowed with evaporated platinum or gold at an average angle of 45 ° in a high vacuum evaporator.

In Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard writes that: "... to be able to fall down in such a way that the same second it looks as if one were standing and walking, to transform the leap of life into a walk, absolutely to express the sublime and the pedestrian -- that only these knights of faith can do -- this is the one and only prodigy.

Related to the concepts of the sublime and the beautiful is the idea of the picturesque, introduced by William Gilpin, which was thought to exist between the two other extremes.

Some organic compounds, especially symmetrical ones, sublime, that is they evaporate without melting.

This does not imply that poetry is illogical or lacks narration, but rather that poetry is an attempt to render the beautiful or sublime without the burden of engaging the logical or narrative thought process.

In spite of the metaphysical subject, the Commedia is deeply rooted in the cultural and social milieu of turn-of-the-century Florence: Dante's rise to power ( 1300 ) and exile ( 1302 ), his political passions call for a " violent " use of language, where he uses all the registers, from low and trivial to sublime and philosophical.

His playing on the original studio recording of " Layla " imparted a sublime quality for which the song is distinctly memorable.

Wittgenstein's conclusion in Proposition 7 echoes the Old Testament words of Jesus ben Sirach ( ישוע בן סירא, Yešwaʿ ven Siraʾ ): What is too sublime for you, do not seek ; do not reach into things that are hidden from you.

Thus, exquisite minimalism of expressive means is used by Cantor to achieve a sublime goal: understanding infinity, or rather infinity of infinities.

Only three of the columns are now standing, and these imperfect ; but the whole area is filled up with a heap of fallen masses, portions of columns, capitals, and other huge architectural fragments, all of the most massive character, and forming, as observed by Henry Swinburne, one of the most gigantic and sublime ruins imaginable.

Thus " Mars " involves motion and " Neptune " is static ; " Venus " is sublime while " Uranus " is vulgar, and " Mercury " is light and scherzando while " Saturn " is heavy and plodding.

* Standard enthalpy of sublimation, or heat of sublimation, is defined as the enthalpy required to sublime one mole of the substance under standard conditions, as previously defined.

At one point, Herder ’ s notes term Swedenborg's visions as " quite sublime ".

" The significance of his account is that the concept of the sublime, at the time a rhetoric term primarily relevant to literary criticism, was used to describe a positive appreciation for horror and terror in aesthetic experience, in contrast to Ashley Cooper, The Third Earl of Shaftesbury ,’ s more timid response to the sublime.

It is also notable that in writing on the " Sublime in external Nature ", he does not use the term " sublime ", but uses terms that would be considered as absolutive superlatives, e. g. " unbounded ", " unlimited ", as well as " spacious ", " greatness ", and on occasion terms denoting excess.

Kant referred to St. Peter's as " splendid ", a term he used for objects producing feeling for both the beautiful and the sublime.

The term " picturesque " needs to be explained in terms of its relationship to two other aesthetic ideals: those of the beautiful and the sublime.

Shaftesbury's philosophical activity was confined to ethics, religion, and aesthetics where he was one of the earliest writers to bring into prominence the concept of the sublime as an aesthetic quality.

In aesthetics, the sublime ( from the Latin sublīmis ) is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual or artistic.

At the beginning of the 20th century Neo-Kantian German philosopher and theorist of aesthetics Max Dessoir founded the Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, which he edited for many years, and published the work Ästhetik und allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft in which he formulated five primary aesthetic forms: the beautiful, the sublime, the tragic, the ugly, and the comic.

Thomas Weiskel re-examined Kant's aesthetics and the Romantic conception of the sublime through the prism of semiotic theory and psychoanalysis.

According to Jean-François Lyotard, the sublime, as a theme in aesthetics, was the founding move of the Modernist period.

The traditional categories of aesthetics ( beauty, meaning, expression, feeling ) are being replaced by the notion of the sublime, which after being natural in the XVIII century, and metropolitan-industrial in the modern era, has now become technological.

He succeeded in creating fresh aesthetics of Kathakali acting-dancing through sublime presentation of rasa and bhava abhinaya.

He is indeed far below Bossuet, whose robust and sublime genius had no rival in that age ; he does not equal Bourdaloue in earnestness of thought and vigour of expression ; nor can he rival the philosophical depth or the insinuating and impressive eloquence of Jean-Baptiste Massillon.

In the ' dynamically ' sublime, the mind recoils at an object so immeasurably more powerful than we, whose weight, force, scale could crush us without the remotest hope of our being able to resist it.

whose conduct is sublime,

He went on to say, "... it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon ; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.

The Adagio, above all, is without question a noble and magnificent inspiration whose sombre poetry reminds us of the sublime greatness of Beethoven's Sonatas.

O Master of sublime name and great power, supreme Master ; O Master Saturn: Thou, the Cold, the Sterile, the Mournful, the Pernicious ; Thou, whose life is sincere and whose word sure ; Thou, the Sage and Solitary, the Impenetrable ; Thou, whose promises are kept ; Thou who art weak and weary ; Thou who hast cares greater than any other, who knowest neither pleasure nor joy ; Thou, the old and cunning, master of all artifice, deceitful, wise, and judicious ; Thou who bringest prosperity or ruin, and makest men to be happy or unhappy!

The me and the I give way to " the man without name, without family, without qualities, without self or I ... the already-Overman whose scattered members gravitate around the sublime image " ( 90 ).

Lateral moraines stand high because they protect the ice under them from the elements, which causes it to melt or sublime less than the uncovered parts of the glacier.

In 1939, he petitioned Franklin Lodge # 25 in Alton, Illinois, and by late November of that year was raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Illinois A. F & A. M. Wadlow's Freemason ring was the largest ever made.

In freeze-drying, the material to be dehydrated is frozen and its water is allowed to sublime under reduced pressure or vacuum.

Kant's view of the beautiful and the sublime is frequently read as an attempt to resolve one of the problems left following his depiction of moral law in the Critique of Practical Reason-namely that it is impossible to prove that we have free will, and thus impossible to prove that we are bound under moral law.

Indeed, painters no longer need to seek for new inventions, novel attitudes, clothed figures, fresh ways of expression, different arrangements, or sublime subjects, for this work contains every perfection possible under those headings.