id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-736 A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful - Wikipedia .html text/html 846 92 61 A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful Wikipedia A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is a 1757 treatise on aesthetics written by Edmund Burke. The origins of our ideas of the beautiful and the sublime, for Burke, can be understood by means of their causal structures. Immanuel Kant critiqued Burke for not understanding the causes of the mental effects that occur in the experience of the beautiful or the sublime. Wikisource has original text related to this article: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A_Philosophical_Enquiry_into_the_Origin_of_Our_Ideas_of_the_Sublime_and_Beautiful&oldid=998785846" ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-736.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-736.txt