A topic within Aesthetics, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
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Longinus
Argues that sublimity in writing is not decoration but the imprint of a great mind, produced by grandeur of conception and intensity of feeling rather than by technique alone.
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Separates the sublime, our response to what threatens us from a safe distance, from the beautiful, our response to what pleases and soothes, tracing both to physiological effects on the nervous system rather than to reasoned judgement.
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