According to the Greek rhetorician Longinus, it could cause "loss of rationality" and "bewilderment". British writers like John Dennis and Joseph Addison revived the philosophical treatment of this subject in discussions of Grand Tours, the former describing it in his Miscellanies as "delight that is consistent with reason" but "mingled with Horrours". Schopenhauer devised a scale to measure it culminating in the "fullest feeling" of it as the im
According to the Greek rhetorician Longinus, it could cause "loss of rationality" and "bewilderment". British writers like John Dennis and Joseph Addison revived the philosophical treatment of this subject in discussions of Grand Tours, the former describing it in his Miscellanies as "delight that is consistent with reason" but "mingled with Horrours". Schopenhauer devised a scale to measure it culminating in the "fullest feeling" of it as the immensity of the universe. It was based on Edmund Burke's argument that it is the antithesis of beauty, which was further developed by Kant in his "Critique of Judgement". FTP, name this aesthetic quality that encompasses a feeling splendor, fear, and awe.
According to the Greek rhetorician Longinus, it could cause "loss of rationality" and "bewilderment".
The {Sublime}