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Dinesh ^club

When we admire the beauty of nature, we easily become absorbed in our tranquil perception of it and “not even a recollection of the will remains” Schopenhauer offers several fascination examples of how the experience of “easy” natural beauty can begin to show traces of sublimity. A first nice example is worth quoting ‘in extenso’.

Now if in the depth of winter, when the whole of nature is frozen and stiff, we see the rays of the setting sun reflected by masses of stone, where they illuminate without warming, and are thus favourable only to the purest kind of knowledge, not to the will, then contemplation of the beautiful effect of light on these masses moves us into the state of pure knowledge, as all beauty does. Yet there, though the fait recollection of the lack of warmth from those rays, in our words, of the absence of the principle of life, a certain transcending of the interest of the will is required. There is a slight challenge to abide in pure knowledge, to turn away from all willing, and precisely in the way we have a transition from the feeling of the beautiful to that of the sublime. It is the faintest trace of the sublime in the beautiful, and beauty itslf appears here only in a slight degree. ~ Page 239

22 months ago.

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