Infinity 21: Klee, Kant, Shelley

Paul Klee on space and time -- a line taken out for a walk.  Back to Kant and a tedious brief exposition of the third critique.  The beautiful as the harmonious, showing the mind as tuned or tuned up, with the willing that organizes perception or the structure of appearance coming from elsewhere, viz. the beautiful object.  (This is what Kant calls the reflective rather than regulative use of reason, and is the reason the analytic of the beautiful in the  Third Critique is so important: it shows the harmony of the mind apart from its own willfulness.)  The mathematical sublime as the will engaged under the rubric of the understanding: apprehension and its relation to comprehension.  The dynamic sublime as the will engaged under the rubric of the will. Illustration via Shelley's Mont Blanc, which we begin reading.