The following is an excerpt from my forthcoming work, “Essay on the Sublime”, in which I attempt to reconceptualise an ancient idea. Its bold thesis is that, far from an aesthetic incident, the Sublime is art’s very ‘telos'.
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The following is an excerpt from my forthcoming work, “Essay on the Sublime”, in which I attempt to reconceptualise an ancient idea. Its bold thesis is that, far from an aesthetic incident, the Sublime is art’s very ‘telos'.
With his total privileging of the concept of Being, Heidegger radically changed the way we conceptualise selfhood. The self went from being an epistemic entity, as it had been for centuries under Descartes and Kant, to a largely ontological one. This paper attempts to shed light of aspects of this paradigmatic shift in the philosophy of the self.
In this paper, I attempt to explore he idea that Kant ‘killed’ god – and I will do so chiefly by applying Kant’s refutations of the ontological proof to some of its most prominent instantiations through history, those of Anselm, Descartes and Spinoza.
At the turn of the 19th century, a group of German philosophers would take changes in epistemology set in motion by Immanuel Kant, and lay them at the foundation of a bold new way of doing metaphysics. These were the so-called Idealists.