“Chinese philosopher Tsang Lap-Chuen is a leading modern exponent of the idea that the sublime involves this kind of experience. In The Sublime: Groundwork towards a Theory, published in 1998, he wrote that the sublime "evokes our awareness of our being on the threshold from the human to that which transcends the human; which borders on the possible and the impossible; the knowable and the unknowable; the meaningful and the fortuitous; the finite and the infinite." In his view, there is no single essential common property possessed by sublime works or sublime natural objects, nor is there a single emotional state evoked by all of them. But he argues that there's a common thread in experiences of the sublime, which is that they take us "to the limit of some human possibility.”
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A Most Elegant Equation: Euler's Formula and the Beauty of Mathematics
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