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Kant gives examples of these pleasant feelings. Some of his examples of feelings of the beautiful are the sight of flower beds, grazing flocks, and daylight. Feelings of the sublime are the result of seeing mountain peaks, raging storms, and night. In this section, Kant gives many particular examples of feelings of the beautiful and the sublime.
Kant began his ethical theory by arguing that the only virtue that can be an unqualified good is a good will. No other virtue, or thing in the broadest sense of the term, has this status because every other virtue, every other thing, can be used to achieve immoral ends. For example, the virtue of loyalty is not good if one is loyal to an evil ...
The Kant scholar Allen W. Wood characterizes the essay as "famous (or infamous)". [3] Helga Varden has written, "Kant's example of lying to the murderer at the door has been a cherished source of scorn for thinkers with little sympathy for Kant's philosophy and a source of deep puzzlement for those more favorably inclined...
"This example includes the feeling, the observation and the why," Dr. Eshtehardi says. "The feeling of frustration is workplace-appropriate, and the 'I statement,' overall, is relevant to the ...
Kant's book has the word "Observations" in the title because it contains Kant's observations or subjective, personal reflections and Kant's original research. The Wikipedia article merely lists Kant's personal observations. The Wikipedia article does not contain the Wikipedia author's personal reflections and original research. Anyone who has ...
Kant referred to St. Peter's as "splendid", a term he used for objects producing feeling for both the beautiful and the sublime. In an early work (of 1764), Immanuel Kant made an attempt to record his thoughts on the observing subject's mental state in Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime. He held that the sublime was of ...
In Kantian philosophy, the thing-in-itself (German: Ding an sich) is the status of objects as they are, independent of representation and observation. The concept of the thing-in-itself was introduced by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, and over the following centuries was met with controversy among later philosophers. [1]
What happens here is…that we find some empirically intuitable situation which can serve as a model by reference to which the idea can be made comprehensible.” [59] For example, Kant tried to show how sense can be made of the idea of an unseen God “by making a [loving or angry] father’s relationship to his children the [metaphorical ...