EDMUND BURKE

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No século XVIII, o termo "sublime" foi usado para comunicar uma sensação de grandeza incomensurável e inspiradora, na natureza ou no pensamento. Sua relação com as definições clássicas da "beleza" foi muito debatida, mas o primeiro filósofo a retrata -lós como forças opostas foi Burke. Originalmente publicado em 1757 e reeditado aqui a partir de...

'Pain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.' In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke argued that our aesthetic responses are experienced as pure emotional arousal, unencumbered by intellectual considerations. In so doing he overturned the Platonic tradition in aesthetics that had prevailed from antiquity until the eighteenth cen...

Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is one of the most enduring analyses of our aesthetic concepts of the Beautiful and the Sublime, which he separates into completely different states. The sublime, says Burke, elicits feelings of terror and awe, while the beautiful elicits pleasure an...

A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas editado por Oxford UP

The British statesman Edmund Burke is an important figure in the history of political theory. Burke is chiefly remembered for his support of the cause of the American Revolutionaries, Catholic emancipation and for his later objections of the French Revolution, leading to his becoming a leading figure in the conservative faction of the Whig Party...

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 11060 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke • The Writings of Thomas Paine: The Rights of ManThomas Paine • Selections from the Speeches and Writing...

THE FIRST ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER.[1] The late Mr. Burke, from a principle of unaffected humility, which they who were the most intimately acquainted with his character best know to have been in his estimation one of the most important moral duties, never himself made any collection of the various publications with which, during a period of ...