Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Sublimity, Reason, Dance

For Kant,  Sublimity is constituted by Fear, and Reason qua Will controlling that Fear.  But, that control only constrains flight, i. e. it does not initiate any counter-action.  Accordingly, Mind and Body remain split.  In contrast, in the concept of Sublimity that can be attributed to Birth of Tragedy, as has been previously discussed, Will generates physical motion, i. e. dance, in which the dancer is expressed as a whole of parts.  Furthermore, that Will is common to all of the celebrants, in whom is, therefore, expressed a We.  So, in comparison with a concept of Sublimity that can be attibuted to Nietzsche, Kant's is underdeveloped, limited by a shortcoming of his concept of Reason.

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