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Quotation from The Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
“Perhaps there is no sublimer passage in the Jewish Law than the command, _Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of anything which is in heaven or on the earth or under the earth”
The Critique of Judgement, Part I, General Remark upon the Exposition of the Aesthetical Reflective Judgement, trans. J. H. Bernard (1914)
Kant argues that the sublime presents the infinite only negatively, and that the prohibition of images is therefore the most sublime of commands.
Citation: "Perhaps there is no sublimer passage in the Jewish Law than the command, _Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of anything which is in heaven or on the earth or under the earth" — Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgement, Part I, General Remark upon the Exposition of the Aesthetical Reflective Judgement, trans. J. H. Bernard (1914). (id kant-critique-of-judgement-q5)
