Kant's Aesthetics 3 - on The Beautiful, The Sublime, Art & Genius.mov

[@ggrier2]

I feel both enlightened and inspired by the points you made so eloquently! Thank you for this explanation!

[@janegriffo2609]

Great explanation on Kant's conception of the beautiful and the sublime. Thank you !

[@sethtichenor]

@Kennethloch456 Well it looks like the video cuts off early for some reason. I'll try to fix that. However, it sounds like you might have missed the las 2.5 minutes or so of the video. I did mention in there that Kant saw fine art (as opposed to crafts & mechanical arts) as novel, creative, and "purposelessly purposive". And, it is in this that "genius" is finds it's expression in the fine arts. If you'd like, though, I can put together a video on various philosophical concepts of genius.

[@stndsure7275]

This is a good set of lectures. I think Kant is not quite correct but is an outstanding place to start the discussion. After 45 years of study and practice - I would say that it all boils down to an understanding of the fundamental aesthetic or creative condition that is reality. It is the aesthetic of the ordinary everyday objects. Long discussion.

[@WubstepUK]

Wow! Really great video, you explored some deep concepts very aptly. I came here because I want to include an element of the sublime in my writing (I'm set to be writing some gothic literature for 20% of my A-Level grade). You really helped distinguish between beauty and the sublime, and even the nature of craft vs art - even existences of "art". What I personally draw from this is the beauty of imperfection. This is something I wrote in my notes mid video: *"The beauty of imperfection; for imperfection has cracks, which create a sense of contrast, which distinguish. Without the bad, we are not able to appreciate the good."* So, this being of imperfection allows for an appreciation of beauty. I also think this binary realisation is seen most conceptually in light, which holds connotations of so much.

[@sethtichenor]

Thanks for your comment. I get the impression you might have thought this video was meant to say something about MY thoughts on genius. This isn't the case. It's simply discussing the philosopher Kant's concept of genius within works of fine art. If you're interested in the concept of genius you might try Kant's "Critique of Judgement". I also suggest looking at Arthur Schopenhauer's, Friedrich Nietzsche's, Walter Benjamin's & Ralph Waldo Emerson's writings on the subject.

[@elizabethorjaliza1091]

hi today is 2020 and im a grade 12 students this video help me a lot to understand my philosophy subject. I hope you are doing great today please take care since its pandemic. thank you so much and god bless! im from the philippines!

[@victoriaparker2705]

I'm writing my dissertation on the sublime and I've got a couple more weeks left to finish it. Some of your ideas are great, hope it's ok to put some in my essay. 📒

[@ansarallahi]

That seriously hit my heart I could feel euphoria through this. Or at least remember

[@nancymohass4891]

“Sublime” is the word to describe feelings about Pollock’s paintings !

[@ruezrocks]

Awesome,my understanding got clear

[@ethanpettit]

Thank you, your talks are very engaging.

[@sethtichenor]

well, thanks for watching.

[@krishnanukala6369]

Nice explanation. Is watching Exorcist movie a sublime experience? I consider so.

[@stndsure7275]

As the Japanese have pointed out - If we know what we are doing - we can find the sublime in having a cup of tea...

[@xgreen8096]

It helped a lot, thank you very much!

[@eliebouroufail7107]

amazing thank you!

[@t1ffanyn160]

Thank you! so helpful

[@ggrier2]

🦋💗

[@fam2283]

Charlie understands sublimity...

[@TheAssasin2525]

Well said!

[@incogb6696]

Are you a professor?

[@sattarabus]

One should avoid wittering on, regurgitating, or thinnking aloud, on a sensitive subject like beauttiful and the sublime. Define, delimit, differentiate, and exemplify, darling! The last word is in the vocative case.

[@markmitchell5071]

DRibble! get off