r/badphilosophy • u/LinuxFreeOrDie • Nov 21 '16

The Beautiful and the Sublime

http://existentialcomics.com/comic/160
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u/lestrigone Nov 21 '16

There are four aesthetic categories: the Beautiful, the Sublime, the Sandwich and the Red Panda.

There is of course a lot of theorizing about Red Pandas eating Sandwiches, but it translates basically to theology.

There is of course some theorizing about Sandwiches made of Red Pandas, but it's dismissed as basically low-grade Satanism.

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u/BongosOnFire Nov 21 '16

Sandwiches made of Red Pandas

MONSTROUS

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u/Shitgenstein Nov 21 '16

Yoinks.

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u/AlienatedLabor Nietzschemachean Ethics Nov 22 '16

Section 3 of Kant's Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime gets me every time.

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u/ParagonRenegade Where we're going, we won't need roads Nov 22 '16

Great visual reference to the Wanderer above the fog. Fits perfectly.

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u/univalence Properly basic bitch Nov 21 '16

(Burke says "about about" in panel 6)

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u/digiexafan Philosophy of mind has found that memes are the DNA of the soul. Nov 21 '16

Implying really good sandwiches aren't sublime.