“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
In the book A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful (1757), Burkedivides the Beautiful and Sublime in two separate categories, where Beautiful is theaesthetically pleasing and the Sublime being whatever has the power to compel and destroy us.
This Graphyco edition includes historical and biographical footnotes.Those notes have the goal to make the book easier to understand.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) was an Irish statesman and philosopher born in Dublin, Ireland.He became Rector of the University of Glasgow in 1783 and served as a member of parliament between 1764 and 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain.