In reply to Marc C:
> (In reply to winhill) Hmm, I fail to comprehend how a mountain can be anything other than indifferent?
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Without being too pedantic, I hope, it is anthropomorphic to describe the mountain as indifferent and externalises the experience.
I picked it out cos you mentioned the Sublime, which for Burke and Kant was something very different, in as much it relies on something external to the human experience to make sense. In Kant's case this was God, not a 'self-produced' feeling. This is important as it relates to the connection between the aesthetic and ethical and their joint reference to experience of God.
So the externalisation of the Sublime is meaningless IMHO.
If Gordon sees this I'm sure he will probably trash it and I seem to remember him saying that some output on aesthetics was on his to-do list.