1. On the Sublime and Beautiful
... based in pain because it is so overwhelming it passes over beauty into powerful emotion. It seems the opposition between the two arises from Burke's definitions of joy and delight. Beauty is reminiscent of joy because it creates pleasure smoothly and arises daintily on its own, while the sublime arises from delight, which is pleasure from the loss of pain, in two ... ...
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- Grade Level: Graduate