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Quotation from The Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
“We call that _sublime_ which is _absolutely great”
The Critique of Judgement, Part I, Analytic of the Sublime, § 25, trans. J. H. Bernard (1914)
The opening definition of the mathematically sublime, which Kant goes on to locate in the mind's idea of totality rather than in any measurable object.
Citation: "We call that _sublime_ which is _absolutely great" — Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgement, Part I, Analytic of the Sublime, § 25, trans. J. H. Bernard (1914). (id kant-critique-of-judgement-q3)
