A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful Summary
Edmund Burke

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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful Summary

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is philosopher Edmund Burke's short examination of human passions - what they are, and what excites them. Specifically, Burke focuses his study on two elusive concepts, the Sublime and the Beautiful.

Taste is first examined by Burke, defined as the faculty that makes judgments upon art and "works of imagination." Taste is determined by the Senses, the...

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