The feeling of the noble sublime is quiet wonder. The feeling of the terrifying sublime is sometimes accompanied with a certain dread or melancholy. Kant subdivided the sublime into three kinds. Feelings of the beautiful "occasion a pleasant sensation but one that is joyous and smiling." On the other hand, feelings of the sublime "arouse enjoyment but with horror." In this section, Kant gives many particular examples of feelings of the beautiful and the sublime. Feelings of the sublime are the result of seeing mountain peaks, raging storms, and night. Some of his examples of feelings of the beautiful are the sight of flower beds, grazing flocks, and daylight. Kant gives examples of these pleasant feelings. There are two kinds of finer feeling: the feeling of the sublime and the feeling of the beautiful. These require some sensitivity, intellectual excellence, talent, or virtue. Instead, he writes about the finer feelings, which are intermediate. His interest is not in coarse, thoughtless feelings or in the other extreme, the finest feelings of intellectual discovery. In this book, he describes his observations. Kant states that feelings of enjoyment are subjective. Of the Distinct Objects of the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime Goldthwait, was published in 1960 by the University of California Press. The first complete translation into English was published in 1799. Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime ( German: Beobachtungen über das Gefühl des Schönen und Erhabenen) is a 1764 book by Immanuel Kant.
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