. . .(1) The “beautiful is what pleases in the mere estimate formed of it (consequently not by the intervention of any feeling of sense in accordance with a concept of the understanding.) From this it follows immediately that it must please from all interest.” (2) The “sublime is what pleases immediately because of its opposition to sense.” It is “an object (of nature) whose representation determines the mind to regard the elevation of nature beyond our reach as equivalent to the presentation of ideas.” . . . ~ Page 347 ~ “Kant : A Biography” ~ Manfred Kuehn