About the Book: Kants Concept of the Sublime: A Pathway to the Numinous
Kants Concept of the Sublime: A Pathway to the Numinous focusesattention on
Kants concern with the problem of moral motivation,the significance of the
aesthetic experience, particularly theexperience of the Sublime in terms of his
overall concern withmorality. As the Sublime is considered in the context of
moralmotivation, this is a new approach. The work argues that theimportance of
knowledge of the existence of a supersensible groundof ourselves and our actions
lies in its role as motivation. Thereis a gap between objectively conceived
principle and subjectivemotivation. The aesthetic experience of the Sublime
provides anexperience that