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The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 2 (of 4)

Note 68 — Chapter II

Francis Plumptre Beresford Osmaston translation

According to Hegel the conception of Kant is right in that (a) He makes the Sublime to consist in a relation between the phenomenal fact and something which it is not; and (b) that he lays it down that no mere representation by means of phenomenal form can adequately express it. He is wrong, however, in that he refers the Sublime for its source wholly to the subjective content, i.e., that Nature which is peculiar to ourselves (in uns.)

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