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The '''sublime''' is the quality of greatness, whether physical, [[moral]], intellectual, [[metaphysical]], aesthetic, [[spiritual]], or [[art]]istic. The term especially refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement, or imitation. Since its first application in the field of rhetoric and drama in [[ancient Greece]] it became an important concept not just in [[philosophical]] aesthetics but also in literary theory and art history. | The '''sublime''' is the quality of greatness, whether physical, [[moral]], intellectual, [[metaphysical]], aesthetic, [[spiritual]], or [[art]]istic. The term especially refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement, or imitation. Since its first application in the field of rhetoric and drama in [[ancient Greece]] it became an important concept not just in [[philosophical]] aesthetics but also in literary [[theory]] and art history. | ||
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Latest revision as of 00:13, 19 February 2023
The sublime is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement, or imitation. Since its first application in the field of rhetoric and drama in ancient Greece it became an important concept not just in philosophical aesthetics but also in literary theory and art history.