What is your answer?
The sublime
{ 1 } - is dynamic if it is that in comparison with which all else is small.
{ 2 } - is mathematical if the mind is confronted with terrible physical power of nature to which it is superior.
{ 3 } - is in accord with the imagination.
{ 4 } - does not incite one to abandon the realm of sense and to occupy itself with higher purposiveness.
{ 5 } - belongs to our feelings or sentiments rather than to the objects which occasion them.
{ 6 } - is found in many natural objects.
<= back | menu | forward =>
Directions: Click on a number from 1 to 6.
1 is wrong. Please try again.
The sublime
{ 1 } - is dynamic if it is that in comparison with which all else is small.
{ 2 } - is mathematical if the mind is confronted with terrible physical power of nature to which it is superior.
{ 3 } - is in accord with the imagination.
{ 4 } - does not incite one to abandon the realm of sense and to occupy itself with higher purposiveness.
{ 5 } - belongs to our feelings or sentiments rather than to the objects which occasion them.
{ 6 } - is found in many natural objects.
No, that is the mathematical sublime.
<= back | menu | forward =>
2 is wrong. Please try again.
The sublime
{ 1 } - is dynamic if it is that in comparison with which all else is small.
{ 2 } - is mathematical if the mind is confronted with terrible physical power of nature to which it is superior.
{ 3 } - is in accord with the imagination.
{ 4 } - does not incite one to abandon the realm of sense and to occupy itself with higher purposiveness.
{ 5 } - belongs to our feelings or sentiments rather than to the objects which occasion them.
{ 6 } - is found in many natural objects.
No, that is the dynamical sublime.
<= back | menu | forward =>
3 is wrong. Please try again.
The sublime
{ 1 } - is dynamic if it is that in comparison with which all else is small.
{ 2 } - is mathematical if the mind is confronted with terrible physical power of nature to which it is superior.
{ 3 } - is in accord with the imagination.
{ 4 } - does not incite one to abandon the realm of sense and to occupy itself with higher purposiveness.
{ 5 } - belongs to our feelings or sentiments rather than to the objects which occasion them.
{ 6 } - is found in many natural objects.
No, it overwhelms the imagination: see p. 364.
<= back | menu | forward =>
4 is wrong. Please try again.
The sublime
{ 1 } - is dynamic if it is that in comparison with which all else is small.
{ 2 } - is mathematical if the mind is confronted with terrible physical power of nature to which it is superior.
{ 3 } - is in accord with the imagination.
{ 4 } - does not incite one to abandon the realm of sense and to occupy itself with higher purposiveness.
{ 5 } - belongs to our feelings or sentiments rather than to the objects which occasion them.
{ 6 } - is found in many natural objects.
<= back | menu | forward =>
5 is correct!
The sublime
{ 1 } - is dynamic if it is that in comparison with which all else is small.
{ 2 } - is mathematical if the mind is confronted with terrible physical power of nature to which it is superior.
{ 3 } - is in accord with the imagination.
{ 4 } - does not incite one to abandon the realm of sense and to occupy itself with higher purposiveness.
{ 5 } - belongs to our feelings or sentiments rather than to the objects which occasion them.
{ 6 } - is found in many natural objects.
<= back | menu | forward =>
Before continuing, you might try some wrong answers.
6 is wrong. Please try again.
The sublime
{ 1 } - is dynamic if it is that in comparison with which all else is small.
{ 2 } - is mathematical if the mind is confronted with terrible physical power of nature to which it is superior.
{ 3 } - is in accord with the imagination.
{ 4 } - does not incite one to abandon the realm of sense and to occupy itself with higher purposiveness.
{ 5 } - belongs to our feelings or sentiments rather than to the objects which occasion them.
{ 6 } - is found in many natural objects.
<= back | menu | forward =>
the end