I felt it behooved me to learn just what the hell "The Sublime" means after Christiane Paul was so shocked to learn that none of us did.
So, here is Kant's take on it, excerpted from
this article at Philosophy Now:
"in what we usually call sublime in nature there is ... an utter lack of anything leading to particular objective principles... the theory of the sublime [is thus] a mere appendix to our aesthetic judging of the purposiveness of nature." (Kant, Critique..., p.100)"
Unrelated question: what do
this and
this have in common?