From the point of view taken in these lectures, the attempt to make sublimity central to reflection on the human future is as dangerous as making God, or Sin, or Truth central to such reflection. As I see it, philosophy should treat the quest for the unconditioned, the infinite, the transcendent and the sublime as a natural human tendency—one which Freud has helped us understand. We should see it, as Freud saw the sublimation of sexual desire, as a precondition for certain striking individual achievements. But we should not see it as relevant to our public, socio-political, cultural prospects.

We should see the quest for the sublime, as Freud saw the sublimation of sexual desire, as a precondition for certain striking individual achievements. But we should not see it as relevant to our public, socio-political, cultural prospects.
PasAA p.(xxxi)
#Pragmatism
#Rorty
#Sublimity

From the point of view taken in these lectures, the attempt to make sublimity central to reflection on the human future is as dangerous as making God, or Sin, or Truth central to such reflection. As I see it, philosophy should treat the quest for the unconditioned, the infinite, the transcendent and the sublime as a natural human tendency—one which Freud has helped us understand. We should see it, as Freud saw the sublimation of sexual desire, as a precondition for certain striking individual achievements. But we should not see it as relevant to our public, socio-political, cultural prospects.

Philosophy should treat the quest for the unconditioned, the infinite, the transcendent and the sublime as a natural human tendency—one which Freud has helped us understand.
PasAA p.(xxxi)
#Pragmatism
#Rorty
#Sublimity

From the point of view taken in these lectures, the attempt to make sublimity central to reflection on the human future is as dangerous as making God, or Sin, or Truth central to such reflection. As I see it, philosophy should treat the quest for the unconditioned, the infinite, the transcendent and the sublime as a natural human tendency—one which Freud has helped us understand. We should see it, as Freud saw the sublimation of sexual desire, as a precondition for certain striking individual achievements. But we should not see it as relevant to our public, socio-political, cultural prospects.

The attempt to make sublimity central to reflection on the human future is as dangerous as making God, or Sin, or Truth central to such reflection.
PasAA p.(xxxi)
#Pragmatism
#Rorty
#Sublimity

For Nietzsche and Dewey, the idea that Reality has an intrinsic nature which common sense and science may never know—that our knowledge may be only of Appearance—is a relic of the idea that there is something non-human which has authority over us. The idea of a non-human authority and the quest for sublimity are both products of self-abasement. Pragmatism says that the conditioned is all there is: that human beings have nothing to know save their relations to each other and to other finite beings. To be satisfied with the conditioned, to give up the quest for the infinite, would be to rest content with beauty. Those who have achieved such contentment will see the pursuit of truth as the pursuit of human happiness, rather than as the fulfillment of a desire which transcends mere happiness.

To be satisfied with the conditioned, to give up the quest for the infinite, would be to rest content with beauty.
PasAA p.(xxx)
#Pragmatism
#Rorty
#Sublimity

For Nietzsche and Dewey, the idea that Reality has an intrinsic nature which common sense and science may never know—that our knowledge may be only of Appearance—is a relic of the idea that there is something non-human which has authority over us. The idea of a non-human authority and the quest for sublimity are both products of self-abasement. Pragmatism says that the conditioned is all there is: that human beings have nothing to know save their relations to each other and to other finite beings. To be satisfied with the conditioned, to give up the quest for the infinite, would be to rest content with beauty. Those who have achieved such contentment will see the pursuit of truth as the pursuit of human happiness, rather than as the fulfillment of a desire which transcends mere happiness.

Pragmatism says that the conditioned is all there is: that human beings have nothing to know save their relations to each other and to other finite beings.
PasAA p.(xxx)
#Pragmatism
#Rorty
#Sublimity

For Nietzsche and Dewey, the idea that Reality has an intrinsic nature which common sense and science may never know—that our knowledge may be only of Appearance—is a relic of the idea that there is something non-human which has authority over us. The idea of a non-human authority and the quest for sublimity are both products of self-abasement. Pragmatism says that the conditioned is all there is: that human beings have nothing to know save their relations to each other and to other finite beings. To be satisfied with the conditioned, to give up the quest for the infinite, would be to rest content with beauty. Those who have achieved such contentment will see the pursuit of truth as the pursuit of human happiness, rather than as the fulfillment of a desire which transcends mere happiness.

The idea of a non-human authority and the quest for sublimity are both products of self-abasement.
Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism (PasAA) p.(xxx)
#Pragmatism
#Rorty
#Sublimity

THE CYCLIST - Sublimity

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The ecology of #sublimity: educational tensions between existence and the ungraspable | Open Access
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Today we went out to see if we could find any flower fields. We saw one but it wasn't accessible. Photos taken between #Sublimity and #Silverton, #Oregon. Lots of brown, but it's still beautiful!

A #life spent viewing all the variety, the majesty, the #sublimity in things around us can never succumb to ennui: the feeling that one is tired of being, of existing, is usually the result of an idle and inactive leisure.

-Seneca, Letter LXXVIII

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The ecology of #sublimity: educational tensions between existence and the ungraspable | Open Access
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1-20 | DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2024.2445233

#environmentaleducation #environmentalphilosophy #ecologisingeducation #SDG4 #qualityeducation

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“Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless.” - Immanuel Kant

#nature #naturephotography #photography #immanuelkant #kant #thesublime #sublimity #earth #travel #adventure #ecotourism #leavenotrace #wonder #wanderlust