Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Hadi Salari ¹
• Ali Salmani ²

¹ Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Philosophy of Art, Bu Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran

² Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy of Art, Bu Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran

Abstract

Concept of sublime has a long record. The record refers usually to ancient Greece but in modern time emerged a challenge, That sublime debated under aesthetics. Kant debated the sublime in his philosophy under aesthetics too. Imagination has special importance in discussion of the sublime. This discussion has other aspects in Kant's philosophy that we must regard to them. In critique of pure reason, imagination participates with understanding and sense, consequently in current interpretations Kant's work is epistemology; it provides conditions of possibility of objectivity in first critique. But in Critique of the Power of Judgment, imagination has a free operation in test judgment, it is in a free harmony with understanding. In theory of the sublime, imagination has relation with reason here feeling of the sublime is similar to morel feeling. Thus it reveals the unity of total determination of man. Therefore we understand the nature as exhibition of supersensible.

Keywords

• sublime
• imagination
• reason
• reflecting
• power of judgment
• idea